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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46669]]></link><description><![CDATA[A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61945]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4670]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very pleased with the way the team played, especially they way they hustled and dove on defense. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42121]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very pleased with the way the team played, especially they way they hustled and dove on defense. You can't ask for anything more. Sometimes the breaks don't go your way. We still have a chance to make the playoffs. We just have to win out from here. It's going to be a good test for the team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my thill-horse has on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51407]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my thill-horse has on his tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel we are all islands - in a common sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65166]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41073]]></link><description><![CDATA[A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. [Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. [Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; il en reste toujours quelque chose.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes even though you're having a good time, you can't help but to stop and think about how much you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes even though you're having a good time, you can't help but to stop and think about how much you miss the old times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22204]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They didn't define what they were going to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37883]]></link><description><![CDATA[They didn't define what they were going to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is hard. After all it kills you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is hard. After all it kills you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21719]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21719</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[My dancing days are done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11022]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dancing days are done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Television commercial is the most efficient power-packed capsule of education that appears anywhere on TV. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58830]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Television commercial is the most efficient power-packed capsule of education that appears anywhere on TV.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66561]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52744]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Away with him, away with him! He speaks Latin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Away with him, away with him! He speaks Latin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century    On humanist assumptions, life leads to nothing; and every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century    On humanist assumptions, life leads to nothing; and every pretense that it does not is a deceit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever after as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remember'd tolling a departing friend. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is never letting your fears stop you from following your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is never letting your fears stop you from following your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why have a cake if I can't eat it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why have a cake if I can't eat it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't usually look to take on the Legislature over something. We make our living working with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't usually look to take on the Legislature over something. We make our living working with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If something goes wrong in an at-bat, you can't worry about the past. I go up there thinking that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42502]]></link><description><![CDATA[If something goes wrong in an at-bat, you can't worry about the past. I go up there thinking that no one can beat me. Just know that the pitcher isn't going to beat you every at-bat. In baseball, you can fail 70 percent of the time and that means you're a great hitter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27590]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. -King Henry VI. Part III. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55991]]></link><description><![CDATA[And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They switched everything and denied passes and did a good job of taking away what we wanted to do. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37103]]></link><description><![CDATA[They switched everything and denied passes and did a good job of taking away what we wanted to do. We just played a lot harder when we were playing well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2913]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've had the first ascents on most of the waterfalls in the Rocky Mountain Front. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34480]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've had the first ascents on most of the waterfalls in the Rocky Mountain Front.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just did not take care of our business. We missed too many shots, made too many mistakes, and played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40168]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just did not take care of our business. We missed too many shots, made too many mistakes, and played non-aggressive. I sincerely believe we have three of the best players in the greater Houston area, yet all three of them struggled tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  If I say to you that no one has time to finish, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  If I say to you that no one has time to finish, that the longest human life leaves a man, in any branch of learning, a beginner, I shall seem to you to be saying something quite academic and theoretical. You would be surprised if you knew how soon one begins to feel the shortness of the tether: of how many things, even in middle life, we have to say, "No time for that", "Too late now" and "Not for me". But Nature herself forbids you [young people] to share that experience. A more Christian attitude, which can be attained at any age, is that of leaving futurity in God's hands. We may as well, for God will certainly retain it whether we leave it to Him or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be so brief as to become obscure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be so brief as to become obscure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bread is the staff of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bread is the staff of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13283</guid></item></channel></rss>