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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   None use instituted forms or ways ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   None use instituted forms or ways of worship profitably, but such as find communion with God in them, or are seriously humbled because they do not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're taking action to protect the city up to 52 feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29943]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're taking action to protect the city up to 52 feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loved no King since Forty One When Prelacy went down,  A Cloak and Band I then put on, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loved no King since Forty One When Prelacy went down,  A Cloak and Band I then put on,   And preached against the Crown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you're seeing is a glut of gently used vehicles, and that's putting pressure on all vehicle prices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38033]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you're seeing is a glut of gently used vehicles, and that's putting pressure on all vehicle prices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No tree has branches so foolish as to fight amongthemselves.Ojibway Tribe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45963]]></link><description><![CDATA[No tree has branches so foolish as to fight amongthemselves.Ojibway Tribe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And see the rivers how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun,  Sometimes swift, sometimes slow,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54321]]></link><description><![CDATA[And see the rivers how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun,  Sometimes swift, sometimes slow,--   Wave succeeding wave, they go    A various journey to the deep,     Like human life to endless sleep!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better do nothing than do ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better do nothing than do ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11115]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27768]]></link><description><![CDATA[In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just one of it where there should be two. I am not sure what this is, but an `F' would only dignify it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was fortunate to get something out over the plate that I could hit out of the park, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35256]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was fortunate to get something out over the plate that I could hit out of the park,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56397]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd like more time of course but we're confident he's responding to treatment and he'll have more treatment today. We'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34719]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd like more time of course but we're confident he's responding to treatment and he'll have more treatment today. We'd like to make a decision today but may wait until tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14533]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916  If faith is the gaze of the heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916  If faith is the gaze of the heart at God, and if this gaze is but the raising of the inward eyes to meet the all-seeing eyes of God, then it follows that it is one of the easiest things possible to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year (Carpenter) learned to pitch with no pain. Now he's coming out this year and throwing at his best. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year (Carpenter) learned to pitch with no pain. Now he's coming out this year and throwing at his best. He's just stronger. You take that whole group of guys and the seasons they all had last year, and they just took all that confidence into this year. Add Mark Mulder to that mix and there are five guys who can win every night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they can stay where they are and can have air and water, (then) stay where they are. We're just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40484]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they can stay where they are and can have air and water, (then) stay where they are. We're just at the point where we cannot meet the needs of our citizens right now, particularly water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The union of lakes--the union of lands-- The union of States none can sever--  The union of hearts--the union ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The union of lakes--the union of lands-- The union of States none can sever--  The union of hearts--the union of hands--   And the flag of our Union for ever!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not satisfied at all with this and I hope in court it all comes out. Right now, I can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not satisfied at all with this and I hope in court it all comes out. Right now, I can't believe what's happening to my baby girl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's an acre sown indeed, With the richest royalest seed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's an acre sown indeed, With the richest royalest seed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23703]]></link><description><![CDATA[One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean.(on sportswriters) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean.(on sportswriters)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do you mean, funny? Funny-peculiar or funny ha-ha? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8974]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do you mean, funny? Funny-peculiar or funny ha-ha?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62525]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What then are we afraid of? Can we have too much of God? Is it a misfortune to be freed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7114]]></link><description><![CDATA[What then are we afraid of? Can we have too much of God? Is it a misfortune to be freed from the heavy yoke of the world, and to bear the light burden of Jesus Christ? Do we fear to be too happy, too much delivered from ourselves, from the caprices of our pride, the violence of our passions, and the tyranny of this deceitful world?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live with able men, and to suffer all those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58048]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live with able men, and to suffer all those pangs of inferiority which the want of knowledge always inflicts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both man and womankind belie their nature When they are not kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both man and womankind belie their nature When they are not kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I strive to mould circumstances to myself, not myself to circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50263]]></link><description><![CDATA[I strive to mould circumstances to myself, not myself to circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river,  Motionless the sleeping shadows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river,  Motionless the sleeping shadows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthony worked his tail off. He had a great spring, summer and fall. So he's had some success because of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anthony worked his tail off. He had a great spring, summer and fall. So he's had some success because of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50873]]></link><description><![CDATA[In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is always there but the pockets change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is always there but the pockets change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43493]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis meet That noble minds keep ever with their likes:  For who so firm that cannot be seduced? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51282]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis meet That noble minds keep ever with their likes:  For who so firm that cannot be seduced?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space  Start it at home, and hunt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25123]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space  Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark,   To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46033]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to be able to contain him (Johnson). He's a fast quarterback, he's young, but he's a great athlete. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34640]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to be able to contain him (Johnson). He's a fast quarterback, he's young, but he's a great athlete. So we just have to be able to contain him and not let him get outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34640</guid></item></channel></rss>