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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 million people marched against the war on 5 continentsin the most united opposition to war ever seen in history.Not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45971]]></link><description><![CDATA[10 million people marched against the war on 5 continentsin the most united opposition to war ever seen in history.Not in a single European country was opposition to the war less than 89%.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23867]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray,  And, darkly circled, gave at noon  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray,  And, darkly circled, gave at noon   A sadder light than waning moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16359]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear may come true that which one is afraid of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect  The thoughts of others! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6170]]></link><description><![CDATA[O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect  The thoughts of others!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 12 years of playing, I've never been on a team that won a playoff game. That was awesome. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34736]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 12 years of playing, I've never been on a team that won a playoff game. That was awesome. They were singing the fight song. Cars were lined up in the grass out there. There must have been a thousand people around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which we daily hear from Christian lips. To possess a high spirit, to behave with proper spirit when used ill -- by which is meant, a quick feeling of injuries, and a promptness in resenting them -- entitles to commendation; and a meek-spirited disposition, the highest Scripture eulogium, expresses ideas of disapprobation and contempt. Vanity and vainglory are suffered without interruption to retain their natural possession of the heart.   ... William Wilberforce, A Practical View  July 31, 2000 Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Jesus used the term abba (which means father or "daddy" in his Aramaic mother tongue), as an address in his prayers to God. There are no other examples of this usage in contemporary Judaism, but Jesus always addressed God in this way. The others perhaps regarded it as child's talk, a form of expression too disrespectful to be so used. But for Jesus, abba expressed the filial intimacy he felt toward his Father. As the divine Son of the Father, Jesus enjoyed a unique relationship with him, and his mission in the world consisted in opening up the blessings of sonship to those who believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Western beat us the year before by about 40 points and they were expected to beat us again by 40 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Western beat us the year before by about 40 points and they were expected to beat us again by 40 points,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile  Thought him still speaking, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile  Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27208]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  The idea of "conviction" is complex. It involves the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  The idea of "conviction" is complex. It involves the concepts of authoritative examination, of unquestionable proof, of decisive judgment, of punitive power. Whatever the final issue may be, he who "convicts" another places the truth of the case in dispute in a clear light before him, so that it must be seen and acknowledged as truth. He who then rejects the conclusion which the exposition involves, rejects it with his eyes open and at his peril. Truth seen as truth carries with it condemnation to all who refuse to welcome it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Companies have advertised ... that they're an equal opportunity company, and yet they're having difficulty finding the talented people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Companies have advertised ... that they're an equal opportunity company, and yet they're having difficulty finding the talented people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sequelae are inherently unpredictable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sequelae are inherently unpredictable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have that right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33773]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have that right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If everything's under control, you're going too slow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41650]]></link><description><![CDATA[If everything's under control, you're going too slow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57829]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you seen my Kung fu lately? Cause it has gotten totally awsome! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you seen my Kung fu lately? Cause it has gotten totally awsome!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no question average selling prices are dropping all over the marketplace, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35149]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no question average selling prices are dropping all over the marketplace,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11583]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majorities because they are supported by the approval of their neighbors. It’s not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The workman still is greater than his work ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The workman still is greater than his work]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. •E. Joseph Cossman  Each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. •E. Joseph Cossman  Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future is just old age and illness and pain.... I must have peace and this is the only way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future is just old age and illness and pain.... I must have peace and this is the only way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, Our God's forgotten, and our soldiers slighted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new;  Ah! still awhile the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new;  Ah! still awhile the old thought retain,   And yet consider it again!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private sector credit from 1999 through the first half of 2001 was adding $1.2 trillion per year. It was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private sector credit from 1999 through the first half of 2001 was adding $1.2 trillion per year. It was the mother of all credit expansions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jobling, there are chords in the human mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jobling, there are chords in the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7528]]></link><description><![CDATA[What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is only a higher moral truth; but to turn to Christ is far more important than to turn to higher moral truth: it is to turn the face towards Him in whom is all moral truth; it is to turn to HIm in whom is not only the virtue which corresponds to the known vice from which the penitent wishes to flee, but all virtue; it is to turn the face to all holiness, all purity, all grace. It was this repentance which the apostles preached after Pentecost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we get concrete proof someone set out (to defraud), then we will pursue them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33005]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we get concrete proof someone set out (to defraud), then we will pursue them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24202]]></link><description><![CDATA[It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31492]]></link><description><![CDATA[People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. It's not viewed as a serious continent. It's a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people don't do what common sense demands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like a Bull Moose.   - Theodore Roosevelt, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57946]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like a Bull Moose.   - Theodore Roosevelt,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48470</guid></item></channel></rss>