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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[So long as he wears the name tags. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34600]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as he wears the name tags.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both Regiments or none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both Regiments or none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats,  And, out of sight, art nursing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats,  And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40632]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't do this now people will not be able to recover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29099]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't do this now people will not be able to recover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tried this because in the past, nobody knew who they'd be skating with. There just wasn't any chemistry. So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36097]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tried this because in the past, nobody knew who they'd be skating with. There just wasn't any chemistry. So if we run this the rest of the season, it will help develop chemistry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988  I do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988  I do a great wrong in His sight, when I beseech Him that He will hear my prayer, which as I give utterance to it I do not hear myself. I entreat Him that He will think of me; but I regard neither myself nor Him. Nay, what is worse, turning over corrupt and evil thoughts in mine heart, I thrust a dreadful offensiveness into His presence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean,  When both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58733]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean,  When both the teacher and the taught are young,   As was the case, at least, where I have been;    They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong     They smile still more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give importance to trifling matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48552]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give importance to trifling matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is never certain. Failure is never final. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is never certain. Failure is never final.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No creature smarts so little as a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50941]]></link><description><![CDATA[No creature smarts so little as a fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calumny is only the noise of madmen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calumny is only the noise of madmen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52493]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -Harriet Beecher Stowe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -Harriet Beecher Stowe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were close -- the top of that ridge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41794]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were close -- the top of that ridge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11169]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coach sat us down after our bad start and told us we needed to come together as a team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach sat us down after our bad start and told us we needed to come together as a team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast;  It's that confounded cucumber   I've ate and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13157]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast;  It's that confounded cucumber   I've ate and can't digest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49330]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10015]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I cause the widow's heart to sing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19030]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I cause the widow's heart to sing for joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover;  Therefore are the lindens ever   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25118]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover;  Therefore are the lindens ever   Chosen seats of each fond lover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remaining over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is really tough. The building was made of steel and concrete. The steel is just twisted like pretzels; the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38107]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is really tough. The building was made of steel and concrete. The steel is just twisted like pretzels; the concrete is just basically disintegrated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, Staretz, 1833   The fool for Christ holds a prophetic role in Christianity, from the early church to Russian Orthodox "pilgrims" and such later fools as Luther, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky, who were seekers after the true, the good, the holy, the beautiful. They were insane -- not in a clinical sense, but in the madness of the Holy, an insanity which ordinary sanity refuses to admit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13384]]></link><description><![CDATA[All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worship and birth to me are known By look, by bearing, and by tone,  Not by furred robe, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worship and birth to me are known By look, by bearing, and by tone,  Not by furred robe, or broidered zone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13487]]></link><description><![CDATA[The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are; If, never leaving Thee, we have no need Our wandering spirits back again to lead Into Thy presence, but continued there Like angels standing on the highest stair Of the Sapphire Throne: this were to pray indeed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Corpse or a Ghost-- . . . I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57395]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Corpse or a Ghost-- . . . I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay alert, stay alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay alert, stay alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65494]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been talking for a while about bringing this type of content to Newport for a while and finally we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42557]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been talking for a while about bringing this type of content to Newport for a while and finally we decided to go ahead and do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, as in chess, forethought wins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27737]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, as in chess, forethought wins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20177]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20177</guid></item></channel></rss>