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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief  Perhaps to thousands, and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47809]]></link><description><![CDATA[He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief  Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the Thickest pizza on earth will be delivered cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the Thickest pizza on earth will be delivered cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27861]]></link><description><![CDATA[News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day. - Skyline, 1961.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted. - The Wretched of the Earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27695]]></link><description><![CDATA[For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted. - The Wretched of the Earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  God usually answers our prayers so much more according ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  God usually answers our prayers so much more according to the measure of His own magnificence, than of our asking, that we do not recognize His benefits to be those for which we sought Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This outer world is but the pictured scroll  Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7631]]></link><description><![CDATA[This outer world is but the pictured scroll  Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book  Wherein who rightly look May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes,  And steer to Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guys are very rude. I said, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44427]]></link><description><![CDATA[New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guys are very rude. I said, "I'd like a card." He says, "You have to prove you're a citizen of New York." So I stabbed him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47468]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9710]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29863]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to be taught even by an enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50737]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to be taught even by an enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen?  Like Royalty, she goes her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen?  Like Royalty, she goes her way,   Laying foundations every day,    Though not for Public Buildings, yet     For Custard, Cake and Omelette.      Of if too old for such a use       They have their fling at some abuse,        As when to censure Plays Unfit         Upon the stage they make a Hit          Or at elections seal the Fate           Of an Obnoxious Candidate.            No wonder, Child, we prize the Hen,             Whose Egg is Mightier than the Pen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845  Trials ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845  Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality is a proud and soaring thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality is a proud and soaring thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems like we have a rivalry every week. CU hates us. BYU hates us. Air Force doesn't care for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33099]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems like we have a rivalry every week. CU hates us. BYU hates us. Air Force doesn't care for us and Wyoming really hates us. Every week, we're playing for some sort of trophy or plaque. That's what is unique about college football.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60123]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23090]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280   The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65784]]></link><description><![CDATA[An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11193]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors' expectations of steelmakers' earnings are high. Steel producers may lead the market this week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investors' expectations of steelmakers' earnings are high. Steel producers may lead the market this week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some boundless contiguity of shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some boundless contiguity of shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46372]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In their search for environmental influences in human health, study researchers plan to examine such factors as the food children ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34096]]></link><description><![CDATA[In their search for environmental influences in human health, study researchers plan to examine such factors as the food children eat, the air they breathe, their schools and neighborhoods, how often they see a health care provider and even the composition of the house dust in their homes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nesh yonge coweslip bendethe wyth the dewe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nesh yonge coweslip bendethe wyth the dewe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45386]]></link><description><![CDATA[When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Me therefore studious of laborious ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Me therefore studious of laborious ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to score field goals when we can score touchdowns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32175]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to score field goals when we can score touchdowns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57842]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to Lord Salisbury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God himself has no right to be a tyrant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47405]]></link><description><![CDATA[God himself has no right to be a tyrant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   Suffer all, and conquer all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   Suffer all, and conquer all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But you have signed an agreement with the Russians! They will sell us oil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29706]]></link><description><![CDATA[But you have signed an agreement with the Russians! They will sell us oil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17980]]></link><description><![CDATA["Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only pressure I feel is staying healthy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only pressure I feel is staying healthy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Kingdom of God is within you.. and all beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17700]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Kingdom of God is within you.. and all beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;  The secret anniversaries of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;  The secret anniversaries of the heart,   When the full river of feeling overflows;--    The happy days unclouded to their close;     The sudden joys that our of darkness start      As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart       Like swallows singing down each wind that blows!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19573</guid></item></channel></rss>