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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are the silent language of grief ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are the silent language of grief]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32020]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44217]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are to stand up for your Government you must be able to stand up to your Government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47120]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are to stand up for your Government you must be able to stand up to your Government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events,  And in to-day already walks to-morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events,  And in to-day already walks to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What millions died that Caesar might be great? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21165]]></link><description><![CDATA[What millions died that Caesar might be great?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white  And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue   Do paint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10814]]></link><description><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white  And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue   Do paint the meadows with delight,    The cuckoo then, on every tree,     Mocks married men: for thus sings he, Cuckoo;      Cuckoo, cuckoo: O, word of fear,       Unpleasing to a married ear!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He left a Corsair's name to other times, Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43636]]></link><description><![CDATA[He left a Corsair's name to other times, Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23550]]></link><description><![CDATA[You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I refuse to enter a wet T-Shirt Contest until my breasts look more like breasts, and less like something I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54690]]></link><description><![CDATA[I refuse to enter a wet T-Shirt Contest until my breasts look more like breasts, and less like something I should tuck into my pants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and electricity are one in the same, my dear.... if you do not feel the jolt in your soul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and electricity are one in the same, my dear.... if you do not feel the jolt in your soul every time a kiss is shared, a whisper is spoken, a touch is felt, then you're not really in love at all....]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43770]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13186]]></link><description><![CDATA[For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was compelled to go to sea, voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end, which, being truth itself, is one -- one for all men and for all occupations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58010]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66364]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rumor mills is spreading and people are taking their kids out of school and are not going to work. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31011]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rumor mills is spreading and people are taking their kids out of school and are not going to work. The panic has already started here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God bless us every one, prayed Tiny Tim, Crippled and dwarfed of body yet so tall  Of soul, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4321]]></link><description><![CDATA[God bless us every one, prayed Tiny Tim, Crippled and dwarfed of body yet so tall  Of soul, we tiptoe earth to look on him,   High towering over all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is often times a lot of speculation about what is the real belief college students have about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40255]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is often times a lot of speculation about what is the real belief college students have about the war in Iraq, and we're trying to give people that sort of information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46052]]></link><description><![CDATA[When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you hide your feelings, the more they show. The more you deny your feelings, the more they grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63261]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you hide your feelings, the more they show. The more you deny your feelings, the more they grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palm Sunday Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palm Sunday Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953   In this state of things I saw no remedy but faith and patience. The passage of Scripture which subdued and controlled my mind was this, "The servant of the Lord must not strive." It was painful indeed to see the church, with the exception of the aisles, almost forsaken; but I thought that if God would only give a double blessing to the congregation that did attend, there would on the whole be as much good done as if the congregation were doubled and the blessing limited to only half the amount. This comforted me many, many times, when, without such a reflection, I should have sunk under my burden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65882]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time. Even if he should decide to abandon it forever ten minutes later, the memory will nag him to the grave. He has seen the creation of the world. It has his mark on it. He has its mark on him. Both marks are, for better or for worse, indelible. All sons, like all daughters, are prodigals if they're smart. Assuming the Old Man doesn't run out on them first, they will run out on him if they are to survive, and if he's smart he won't put up too much of a fuss. A wise father sees all this coming, and maybe that's why he keeps his distance from the start. He must survive too. Whether they ever find their way home again, none can say for sure, but it's the risk he must take if they're ever to find their way at all. In the meantime, the world tends to have a soft spot in its heart for lost children. Lost fathers have to fend for themselves. Even as the father lays down the law, he knows that someday his children will break it as they need to break it if ever they're to find something better than law to replace it. Until and unless that happens, there's no telling the scrapes they will get into trying to lose him and find themselves. Terrible blnders will be made-dissapointments and failures, hurts and losses of every kind. And they'll keep making them even after they've found themselves too, of course, because growing up is a process that goes on and on. And every hard knock they ever get, knocks the father even harder still, if that's possible, and if and when they finally come through more or less in one piece at the end, there's maybe no rejoicing greater than his in all creation. -Fatherhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22575]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17766]]></link><description><![CDATA[As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Shepherd and the WolfA shepherd once found the whelp of a Wolf and brought it up, and after a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1582]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Shepherd and the WolfA shepherd once found the whelp of a Wolf and brought it up, and after a while taught it to steal lambs from the neighboring flocks. The Wolf, having shown himself an apt pupil, said to the Shepherd, Since you have taught me to steal, you must keep a sharp lookout, or you will lose some of your own flock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will learne to pray, let him goe to Sea. [He that will learn to pray, let him go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49411]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will learne to pray, let him goe to Sea. [He that will learn to pray, let him go to Sea.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1888]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912  Let us not inquire into the affairs of others that concern us not, but be busied within ourselves and our own spheres; ever remembering that to pry into the actions or interests of other men not under our charge may minister to pride, to tyranny, to uncharitableness, to trouble, but can never consist with modesty; unless where duty or the mere intentions of charity and relation do warrant it... Knock, therefore, at the door before you enter upon your neighbor's privacy: and remember, that there is no difference between entering his house and looking into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-night, at least, to-night be gay, Whate'er to-morrow brings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50682]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-night, at least, to-night be gay, Whate'er to-morrow brings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12904]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61516</guid></item></channel></rss>