<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Words - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66007]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let deeds match words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let deeds match words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words, without power, is mere philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words, without power, is mere philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64779]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64529]]></link><description><![CDATA[My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63932]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word to the wise is infuriating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63570]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word to the wise is infuriating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our words from loose using have lost their edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63428]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our words from loose using have lost their edge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should learn to choose our words carefully, as we can hurt, and mislead others. Words...can't be taken back, once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63188]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should learn to choose our words carefully, as we can hurt, and mislead others. Words...can't be taken back, once you give them away.Harsh words are like bullets: no matter what, they can still leave a painful injury. And sometimes, a "sorry" is not enough to heal the wounds you leave...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can only be forgiven not forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can only be forgiven not forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62061]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62057]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62058]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words writ in waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words writ in waters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are but empty thanks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are but empty thanks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62051]]></link><description><![CDATA[A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62054]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words.  "Careful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words.  "Careful with fire," is good advice we know   "Careful with words," is ten times doubly so.    Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead;     But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62047]]></link><description><![CDATA[High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine.  Of all sad words experience gleans,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine.  Of all sad words experience gleans,   The saddest are: "It might have beans."    (The did not make this up myself:     'Twas in a book upon my shelf.      It's witty, but I don't deny       It's rather Whittier than I.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62041]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62042]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62043]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have only, when before you glass, to keep pronouncing to yourself nimini-pimini; the lips cannot keep taking their plie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62044]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have only, when before you glass, to keep pronouncing to yourself nimini-pimini; the lips cannot keep taking their plie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62045]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a word that's quickly spoken, Which being unrestrained, a heart is broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62035]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a word that's quickly spoken, Which being unrestrained, a heart is broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus said; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62036]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus said; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62039]]></link><description><![CDATA[How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That blessed word Mesopotamia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62030]]></link><description><![CDATA[That blessed word Mesopotamia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62031]]></link><description><![CDATA[He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger than all fighting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger than all fighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words, as a Tartar's bow, do not shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words, as a Tartar's bow, do not shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No words are necessary between two loving hearts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62028]]></link><description><![CDATA[No words are necessary between two loving hearts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62029]]></link><description><![CDATA[When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair words butter no parsnips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair words butter no parsnips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One picture is worth ten thousand words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48615]]></link><description><![CDATA[One picture is worth ten thousand words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48615</guid></item></channel></rss>