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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63683]]></link><description><![CDATA[A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49576]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because a dress is red satin doesn't mean it will come off easily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because a dress is red satin doesn't mean it will come off easily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65055]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature herself was proud of his designs, And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines!  Which were so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature herself was proud of his designs, And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines!  Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit,   As since, she will vouchsafe no other wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face,  The heart whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face,  The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,   And, oh! the eye was in itself a Soul!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45043]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remarriage: A triumph of hope over experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remarriage: A triumph of hope over experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were trying to give it its own identity. Before it was tucked away and hard to find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35640]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were trying to give it its own identity. Before it was tucked away and hard to find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to use your agility and try to make him miss, rather than trying to run around him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36935]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to use your agility and try to make him miss, rather than trying to run around him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your lordship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your lordship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3909]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When ambition ends, happiness begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2365]]></link><description><![CDATA[When ambition ends, happiness begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!   - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47943]]></link><description><![CDATA[So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!   - Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know I'm going to be happy way later in the future, knowing that's the way I conducted myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know I'm going to be happy way later in the future, knowing that's the way I conducted myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this day and age, you hear more about kids being kidnapped or lured. It's different today than it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40767]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this day and age, you hear more about kids being kidnapped or lured. It's different today than it was 10 years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51462]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13780]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The girls have been feuding for months. That's not a surprise to anyone. We've prepared for that. We've built that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31587]]></link><description><![CDATA[The girls have been feuding for months. That's not a surprise to anyone. We've prepared for that. We've built that reality into our production plan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42619]]></link><description><![CDATA[A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60865]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, "culture." It's an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, "culture." It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing "art" to defend their collapsing culture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity is praised and starves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is praised and starves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59536]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die -- whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes people don't tell us if they have an infestation. Then they move out and someone else moves in and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes people don't tell us if they have an infestation. Then they move out and someone else moves in and that person has to deal with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is an ass, a idiot." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3105]]></link><description><![CDATA["If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is an ass, a idiot."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63541]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The willingness to learn new skills is very high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The willingness to learn new skills is very high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To complain of lack of leadership is, in the field of political affairs, the characteristic attitude of all harbingers of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47204]]></link><description><![CDATA[To complain of lack of leadership is, in the field of political affairs, the characteristic attitude of all harbingers of dictatorship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11500]]></link><description><![CDATA[A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3127]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that would have been a fair criticism that would have had more weight if it came a month ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40610]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that would have been a fair criticism that would have had more weight if it came a month ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deal is a clear sign that it still pays to be overweight Mexico and we expect to see more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deal is a clear sign that it still pays to be overweight Mexico and we expect to see more upside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53959]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rather than come clean about their mistake, they helped launch the United States into a bloody war that would last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rather than come clean about their mistake, they helped launch the United States into a bloody war that would last for 10 years,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the next two days he will be visited by his family including his grandchildren and daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29830]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the next two days he will be visited by his family including his grandchildren and daughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian cell in a factory or a professional circle, funding its own activities, deciding its own pattern of work, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian cell in a factory or a professional circle, funding its own activities, deciding its own pattern of work, studying the Bible and perhaps celebrating the Lord's supper as an entity on its own, comes very much closer to Independency as Robert Browne saw it than the unholy isolationism of a prosperous suburban church, with 200 members who scarcely know each other by sight. If a sizable proportion of the Free Church ministry were enabled to become itinerant once again -- not necessarily itinerant in the geographical sense, but itinerant in the complex mazes of contemporary society, fathers in God to Christian organisms evolved by the lay men and women who spend their lives in these mazes -- new heart would be put into both ministry and laity, and incidentally, new impetus given to the search for Christian unity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Continued from yesterday]  4. When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous sins, then it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7692]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Continued from yesterday]  4. When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous sins, then it is time for the church to awake and cry to God for a Revival of Religion. When such things are taking place as give enemies of religion an occasion for reproach, it is time for the church to ask God, "What will become of Thy great name?"  5. When there is a spirit of controversy in the church or in the land, a revival is needful. The spirit of religion is not the spirit of controversy. There can be no prosperity in religion, where the spirit of controversy prevails.  6. When the wicked triumph over the church, and revile them, it is time to seek for a Revival of Religion.  7. When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as much the duty of the church to awake, as it is for the firemen to awake when a fire breaks out in the night in a great city. The church ought to put out the fires of hell which are laying hold of the wicked. Sleep! Should the firemen sleep, and let the whole city burn down, what would be thought of such firemen? And yet their guilt would not compare with the guilt of Christians who sleep while sinners around them are sinking stupid into the fires of hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overall for lithography, we still need to shrink for these guys to get two microprocessors on a chip, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overall for lithography, we still need to shrink for these guys to get two microprocessors on a chip,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom said, 'Get up.' Society said, 'Get up.' Politics said, 'Get up.' The bus driver said, 'Get up.' But you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom said, 'Get up.' Society said, 'Get up.' Politics said, 'Get up.' The bus driver said, 'Get up.' But you gave her the power to stay seated. She heard your voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the biggest one was the NBA three. I don?t know how many seconds were left on the (shot) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the biggest one was the NBA three. I don?t know how many seconds were left on the (shot) clock, but I think it almost hit the ceiling ? I think the momentum was in their favor at that point and that changed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63560</guid></item></channel></rss>