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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. [Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51067]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. [Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. [Lat., Dum in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60022]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. [Lat., Dum in dubio est animus, paulo momento huc illuc impellitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marcus Banks had three years here, to play, and he had three coaches (Jim O'Brien, John Carroll, Doc Rivers) that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marcus Banks had three years here, to play, and he had three coaches (Jim O'Brien, John Carroll, Doc Rivers) that weren't real excited about him. I think Marcus is a good player, but I don't think (there was) impatience, certainly not like a Joe Johnson or Chauncey Billups situation, you know, rookie players that were very high (draft) picks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57620]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be praised by a man who has won his laurels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48530]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be praised by a man who has won his laurels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16368]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing peace is the measure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing peace is the measure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46779]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will not reduce America's dependence on oil and it will not create a cleaner energy future. Instead the bill ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29410]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will not reduce America's dependence on oil and it will not create a cleaner energy future. Instead the bill allows big oil companies to pollute water supplies, plunder the Treasury and attack our coastlines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War will cease when men refuse to fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27657]]></link><description><![CDATA[War will cease when men refuse to fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1736]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2238]]></link><description><![CDATA[To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5861]]></link><description><![CDATA[One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49314]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time they realized that they are not doing something good for their brothers [in the South], it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29705]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time they realized that they are not doing something good for their brothers [in the South], it is too late, they have a job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tigress, robb'd of young, a lioness, Or other interesting beast of prey,  Are similes at hand for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48719]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tigress, robb'd of young, a lioness, Or other interesting beast of prey,  Are similes at hand for the distress   Of ladies who cannot have their own way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot imagine a much greater misfortune for a man (not to say a clergyman) than not to know, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8214]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot imagine a much greater misfortune for a man (not to say a clergyman) than not to know, or knowing, not to minister to, any of the poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes me feel good to walk through there and know that some of the things that Negro League players ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36249]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes me feel good to walk through there and know that some of the things that Negro League players played for has been preserved, and people can go in there, and look at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46127]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53670]]></link><description><![CDATA[No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42933]]></link><description><![CDATA[As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right, ... And he goes about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right, ... And he goes about seeing that things turn out that way ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â with, of course, a lot of people suffering along the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/971]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26594]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't knock it back now it's just going to get worse and worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33558]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't knock it back now it's just going to get worse and worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind flies back with a grand recoil From debts not due till to-morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind flies back with a grand recoil From debts not due till to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13405]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a vibrancy in Africa. We are offering that gift back to America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28559]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a vibrancy in Africa. We are offering that gift back to America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is fossil poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is fossil poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most. [Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus dolet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58205]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most. [Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus dolet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be prepared is half the victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9894]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be prepared is half the victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fox and the GoatA fox one day fell into a deep well and could find no means of escape. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1536]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fox and the GoatA fox one day fell into a deep well and could find no means of escape. A Goat, overcome with thirst, came to the same well, and seeing the Fox, inquired if the water was good. Concealing his sad plight under a merry guise, the Fox indulged in a lavish praise of the water, saying it was excellent beyond measure, and encouraging him to descend. The Goat, mindful only of his thirst, thoughtlessly jumped down, but just as he drank, the Fox informed him of the difficulty they were both in and suggested a scheme for their common escape. If, said he, you will place your forefeet upon the wall and bend your head, I will run up your back and escape, and will help you out afterwards. The Goat readily assented and the Fox leaped upon his back. Steadying himself with the Goat's horns, he safely reached the mouth of the well and made off as fast as he could. When the Goat upbraided him for breaking his promise, he turned around and cried out, You foolish old fellow! If you had as many brains in your head as you have hairs in your beard, you would never have gone down before you had inspected the way up, nor have exposed yourself to dangers from which you had no means of escape. Look before you leap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are good corporate citizens in the community. Both companies were involved in many community events. They participate on many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38138]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are good corporate citizens in the community. Both companies were involved in many community events. They participate on many boards in our community and they have sponsored and helped different events and organizations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2267]]></link><description><![CDATA[People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61040]]></link><description><![CDATA[By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of celebration to this thing, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40896]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of celebration to this thing,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897  Most of our conflicts and difficulties come from trying to deal with the spiritual and practical aspects of our life separately instead of realizing them as parts of one whole. If our practical life is centered on our own interests, cluttered up by possessions, distracted by ambitions, passions, wants and worries, beset by a sense of our own rights and importance, or anxieties for our own future, or longings for our own success, we need not expect that our spiritual life will be a contrast to all this. The soul's house is not built on such a convenient plan; there are few soundproof partitions in it. Only when the conviction -- not merely the idea -- that the demand of the Spirit, however inconvenient, rules the whole of it, will those objectionable noises die down which have a way of penetrating into the nicely furnished little oratory and drowning all the quieter voices by their din.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988   In coming to know Jesus, you have come to know yourself, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988   In coming to know Jesus, you have come to know yourself, too: naturally, this is more pleasant for some than for others, but to see yourself as you really are can never be entirely pleasant. And when a Christian fails at something he ought to have done, it isn't just the failure that hurts -- there is also the knowledge that he has let Jesus down. And those little shortcomings of ours, that used to matter so little, compared with the glaring faults of others: we know now that our temper, or our gloom, or our selfishness, reflects on Jesus; and knowing that people are judging your Lord by you is not always a joyous thought to live with. Even the growing up to His measure is hard on a man: we have so little aptitude for such a transformation that it always means conflict, and often rebellion. And temptations hurt as they never did before: not just in the conscience, but in the heart. The assaults of temptation are not on our prudence now, or even on our morals, but on the love for Jesus. His love for us has made Him quite defenseless against our hurting Him, and so temptation is no longer an urge to do a bad thing but an urge to hurt a loving Person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7020</guid></item></channel></rss>