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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA['Twas his ambition, generous and great A life to life's great end to consecrate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61253]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas his ambition, generous and great A life to life's great end to consecrate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet spirit immortal, the tomb cannot bind thee, But like thine own eagle that soars to the sun  Thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet spirit immortal, the tomb cannot bind thee, But like thine own eagle that soars to the sun  Thou springest from bondage and leavest behind thee   A name which before thee no mortal hath won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20910]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11536]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall escape the uphill by never turning back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall escape the uphill by never turning back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65495]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59286]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bit sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11005]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bit sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know that we're willing to do that tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41009]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know that we're willing to do that tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chiefs contend only for their place of burial. [Lat., Ducibus tantum de funere pugna est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chiefs contend only for their place of burial. [Lat., Ducibus tantum de funere pugna est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the games end we shall see who gaines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49144]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the games end we shall see who gaines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63275]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yemen has a great history of a civil war between the north and the south. The country was only recently ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yemen has a great history of a civil war between the north and the south. The country was only recently reunited, back in 1990. You have about 16 to 17 million people; you have about 50 million guns. It's basically a country that is pretty trigger happy. It's very generous, very hospitable to foreigners, but on the other hand, there's always that element of risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing adventured, nothing attained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing adventured, nothing attained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of the season, (university president) Dr. (Charles) Dougherty and I will take a look at where we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36072]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of the season, (university president) Dr. (Charles) Dougherty and I will take a look at where we are and where we stand for the future. ... We need to put an established product and winner on the men's basketball court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5614]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children have more need of models than critics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children have more need of models than critics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64355]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to help them in any way we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31502]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to help them in any way we can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vesper bell from far That seems to mourn for the expiring day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vesper bell from far That seems to mourn for the expiring day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very large hurricane, a very powerful hurricane. Wherever you have the eye of this system, you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40857]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very large hurricane, a very powerful hurricane. Wherever you have the eye of this system, you are going to have a potentially catastrophic disaster there. This is the worst-case scenario for a hurricane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are very pleased that our ships are making a difference in their lives and contributing to the recovery of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42719]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are very pleased that our ships are making a difference in their lives and contributing to the recovery of New Orleans,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having children with someone is the real bond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having children with someone is the real bond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May all that have life be delivered from suffering.Buddhist prayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20932]]></link><description><![CDATA[May all that have life be delivered from suffering.Buddhist prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Streak of silver sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Streak of silver sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not sheer malice that pricks our ears to evil reports about our fellow men. For there are frequent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52331]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not sheer malice that pricks our ears to evil reports about our fellow men. For there are frequent moments when we feel lower than the lowest of mankind, and this opinion of ourselves isolates us. Hence the rumor that all flesh is base comes almost as a message of hope. It breaks down the wall that has kept us apart, and we feel one with humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15655]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he was talking, he was lying and if he wasn't lying, he was stealing. He was just a weird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42543]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he was talking, he was lying and if he wasn't lying, he was stealing. He was just a weird and lonely guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener is usually thinking about something else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65235]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener is usually thinking about something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it breaks your heart. Don't break your heart, but flirt with the possibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17854]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Jeremy Taylor gives us some fundamental rules for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Jeremy Taylor gives us some fundamental rules for prayer. And the chief of them is this: "Do not lie to God." And that curt piece of advice, so bluntly thrown down for us, is indeed all-important. Do not burn false fire upon God's altar; do not pose and pretend, either to Him or to yourself, in your religious exercises; do not say more than you mean, or use exagerated language that goes beyond the facts, when speaking to Him whose word is truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18160]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way. [Lat., Conveniens homini est hominem servare voluptas.  Et melius nulla quaeritur arte favor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom. [Lat., Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom. [Lat., Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35297]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739   In that age they will neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739   In that age they will neither marry nor be given in marriage, but will be as the angels. We are destined to a better state -- destined to rise to a spiritual consortship. So we, who shall be with God, shall be together: since we shall all be with the one God, though there be many mansions in the house of the same Father; and, in eternal life, God will still less separate them whom He has joined together, than, in this lesser life, He allows them to be separated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46218</guid></item></channel></rss>