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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13814]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds, careless of the voice of the morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds, careless of the voice of the morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots. [Fr., Une natione de singes a larynx de parroquets.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16623]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots. [Fr., Une natione de singes a larynx de parroquets.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15511]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24355]]></link><description><![CDATA[All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  Never do anything through strife, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  Never do anything through strife, or emulation, or vainglory. Never do anything in order to excel other people, but in order to please God, and because it is His will that you should do everything in the best manner that you can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In effect, the army is confined to fortified bases while the Taliban are filling the vacuum outside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29790]]></link><description><![CDATA[In effect, the army is confined to fortified bases while the Taliban are filling the vacuum outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They played for the city league championship and lost to Simon Gratz. That was always their state championship. Nobody is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41831]]></link><description><![CDATA[They played for the city league championship and lost to Simon Gratz. That was always their state championship. Nobody is comparable around here. They're interchangeable. They have big guys who can take it outside, they're super quick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21263]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46334]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea that you could see someone tomorrow and she could be the love of your life? It's very romantic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be noble in every thought And in every deed! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be noble in every thought And in every deed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40641]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard  Celestial voices to the midnight air, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62313]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard  Celestial voices to the midnight air,   Sole, or responsive each to other's note,    Singing their great Creator?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11078]]></link><description><![CDATA[The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33685]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52637]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is all very frustrating, ... We've got to be able to invest in some incubators for change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29430]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is all very frustrating, ... We've got to be able to invest in some incubators for change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultures contain many cues and inducements to dissuade the individual from approaching ultimate limits, in much the same way that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cultures contain many cues and inducements to dissuade the individual from approaching ultimate limits, in much the same way that a special warning strip of land around the edge of a baseball field lets a player know that he is about to run into a concrete wall when he is preoccupied with catching the ball. The wider that strip of land and the more sensitive the player is to the changing composition of the ground under his feet as he pursues the ball, the more effective the warning. Romanticizing or lionizing as "individualistic" those people who disregard social cues and inducements increases the danger of head-on collisions with inherent social limits. Decrying various forms of social disapproval is in effect narrowing the warning strip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58822]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While I think the dangers of a member of the committee being blackmailed are somewhat exaggerated in political discourse, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33663]]></link><description><![CDATA[While I think the dangers of a member of the committee being blackmailed are somewhat exaggerated in political discourse, it would still be a prudent discussion for the minority leader to have with Mr. Condit, ... It can very well be that one would want to err on the side of prudence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like men condemned to thunderbolts, Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like men condemned to thunderbolts, Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seriously looking at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30775]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seriously looking at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41626]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  Use yourself then by degrees thus to worship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  Use yourself then by degrees thus to worship Him, to beg His grace, to offer Him your heart from time to time, in the midst of your business, even every moment if you can. Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion; but act with a general confidence in God, with love and humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47860]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!  There is betwixt that smile we would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54508]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!  There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to,   That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,    More pangs and fears than wars or women have;     And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,      Never to hope again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream in a pragmatic way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream in a pragmatic way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, The spectral Owl doth dwell;  Dull, hated, despised, in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45336]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, The spectral Owl doth dwell;  Dull, hated, despised, in the sunshine hour,   But at the dusk--he's abroad and well!    Not a bird of the forest e'er mates with him--     All mock him outright, by day:      But at night, when the woods grow still and dim,       The boldest will shrink away!        O, when the night falls, and roosts the fowl,         Then, then, is the reign of the Horned Owl!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good ;consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55400]]></link><description><![CDATA[A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64679]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  There is no hope of establishing a Christian social order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  There is no hope of establishing a Christian social order except through the labour and sacrifice of those in whom the Spirit of Christ is active.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ram thou fruitful tidings in mine ears, That long time have been barren. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ram thou fruitful tidings in mine ears, That long time have been barren.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59951]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to be off the bottom by then, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39343]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to be off the bottom by then,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary   If you were to rise early every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary   If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time and of fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means [toward] great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head that softness and idleness were to be avoided and that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Season your admiration for a while With an attent ear. . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Season your admiration for a while With an attent ear. . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59886]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a workable document from which good things can flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38366]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a workable document from which good things can flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43733]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6008]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/688]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/688</guid></item></channel></rss>