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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is reason gone mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is reason gone mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  It is clear that he does not pray, who, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23744]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. When they talk about values, they’re talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being loyal to Jesus, praying. These are not values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52732]]></link><description><![CDATA[I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1197]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Man Bitten by a DogA man who had been bitten by a Dog went about in quest of someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Man Bitten by a DogA man who had been bitten by a Dog went about in quest of someone who might heal him. A friend, meeting him and learning what he wanted, said, If you would be cured, take a piece of bread, and dip it in the blood from your wound, and go and give it to the Dog that bit you. The Man who had been bitten laughed at this advice and said, Why? If I should do so, it would be as if I should beg every Dog in the town to bite me. Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed increase their means of injuring you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will... Once I would make much ado, if I saw not the world carved and set in order to my liking; now I am silent, when I see God... is fattening and feeding the children of perdition. I pray God, I may never find my will again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45757]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63777]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50265]]></link><description><![CDATA[If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48045]]></link><description><![CDATA[God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,  A gauntlet with a gift in 't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we came out pretty intense with our full-court defense. We were able to cause some turnovers and get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we came out pretty intense with our full-court defense. We were able to cause some turnovers and get some transitions baskets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will take a lot of officers' time to go out when a dog's squatting on someone else's property. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32923]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will take a lot of officers' time to go out when a dog's squatting on someone else's property. They have some ordinances they don't enforce now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51120]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All beings are beautiful seen through eyes of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25891]]></link><description><![CDATA[All beings are beautiful seen through eyes of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and 'chuck 'im out, the brute,' But it's 'Savior of his Country,' When the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25221]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and 'chuck 'im out, the brute,' But it's 'Savior of his Country,' When the guns begin to shoot!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws die, Books never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws die, Books never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-rangeperspective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-rangeperspective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/801]]></link><description><![CDATA[If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are lacking for so much and then they got robbed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28855]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are lacking for so much and then they got robbed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's vote deals a severe blow to the ambitions of the terrorists and sends a clear message to the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's vote deals a severe blow to the ambitions of the terrorists and sends a clear message to the world that the people of Iraq will decide the future of their country through peaceful elections, not violent insurgency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5779]]></link><description><![CDATA[A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had dinner and went to bed. We were all very worried about Harry. That was the main thing on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39558]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had dinner and went to bed. We were all very worried about Harry. That was the main thing on our mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to be an outlier in sales tax with this weak growth, ... We anticipate with the home heating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42412]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to be an outlier in sales tax with this weak growth, ... We anticipate with the home heating oil season coming back, it's going to be bad. The sales tax will probably take a hit in the final quarter of this [calendar] year and through first quarter unless prices all of a sudden correct themselves and come back down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42412</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[No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52760]]></link><description><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7634]]></link><description><![CDATA[[He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other times; that we are as strictly obliged to adhere to God by action in the time of action as by prayer in the season of prayer. That his view of prayer was nothing else but a sense of the Presence of God, his soul being at that time insensible to everything but Divine Love; and that when the appointed times of prayer were past, he found no difference, because he still continued with God, praising and blessing Him with all his might, so that he passed his life in continual joy; yet hoped that God would give him somewhat to suffer when he should have grown stronger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courageunless you're scared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courageunless you're scared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hasn't been as big of an adjustment as you'd think. Everyone has elevated their play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38312]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hasn't been as big of an adjustment as you'd think. Everyone has elevated their play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful strokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful strokes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63273]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27686]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little neglect may breed great mischief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44352]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little neglect may breed great mischief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow;  But by-and-by will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow;  But by-and-by will the deed and the plan   Be judged by the motive that lieth below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Independence now: and Independence forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Independence now: and Independence forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it;  This high man, with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/491]]></link><description><![CDATA[That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it;  This high man, with a great thing to pursue,   Dies ere he knows it.    That low man goes on adding one to one,     His hundreds soon hit:      His high man, aiming at a million,       Misses an unit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A decision made at night may be changed in the morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11599]]></link><description><![CDATA[A decision made at night may be changed in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11599</guid></item></channel></rss>