<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16901]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. •Charlotte Bronte   A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. •Bernard Meltzer   True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. •George Washington   Friends are born, not made. •Henry Adams   Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. •Anonymous   Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. •Aristotle   A friend loveth at all times. •Bible, Proverbs 17:17   Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship-never. •Charles Caleb Colton   A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. •Ralph Waldo Emerson  It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them •Ralph Waldo Emerson   The only way to have a friend is to be one. •Ralph Waldo Emerson   Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends. •Euripides   It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. •F Scott Fitzgerald   We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us. •François Duc de La Rochefoucauld   God gives us our relatives- thank God we can choose our friends. •Ethel Watts Mumford   Love demands infinitely less than friendship. •George Jean Nathan   Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it-- to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help. •Friedrich Nietzsche   Hold a true friend with both your hands. •Nigerian Proverb   Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love. •William Shakespeare   The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. •Logan Pearsall Smith   A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. •Henry David Thoreau   Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. •Bible, John 15:13  The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. •Mark Twain   Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. •Voltaire   Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. •Oscar Wilde   Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. •Virginia Woolf  Chide a friend in private and praise him in public. •Solon  Depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously towards himself will act so towards others, and vice versa. •Lavater  Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, What! You, too? I thought I was the only one. •C. S. Lewis  If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends let others excel you. •Colton  Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest to his feet. •John Seldon  There's not so much danger in a known foe than in a suspected friend. •Nabb  To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses. •Syrus  True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. •Charles Caleb Colton  We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. •Evelyn Waugh  Who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God. •Lavater  Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. •Samuel Butler  A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. •Ralph Waldo Emerson,  If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. •Blaise Pascal  I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. •Plutarch  There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between counsel of a friend and a flatterer. •Francis Bacon  Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. •George Macdonald  A friend is, as it were, a second self. •Cicero   Friendship is Love without his wings! •Byron   To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship. •Cicero   Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. •Shakespeare   That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. •Quarles   He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. •Joubert  Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. •Richter   Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. •Nathaniel Hawthorne   The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. •Buddha   Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. •Seneca   The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority. •The Hitopadesa  Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. •La Fontaine   The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. •Moliere   One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. •Henry Brook Adams  A friend in need is a friend to be avoided. •Lord Samuel  While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both of his. •Anonymous  Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral. •Kehlog Albran  The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. •Henry David Thoreau   There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros. •Buddha   The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend. •Abraham Lincoln   If a man does not make new acquaintances, as he advances through life, he soon will find himself alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair. •Samuel Johnson   You should never second-guess the motives of your true friends. You don't even have to analyze their actions because you know, at bottom, that whatever they do or say or think flows in some fundamental way from the fact that they love you. •Star Jones  True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. •Theophrastus  True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. •George Washington  But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. •Thomas Jefferson  True friendship brings sunshine to the shade, and shade to the sunshine]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to make a run and we, obviously in that third quarter only scored two points. And that's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35992]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to make a run and we, obviously in that third quarter only scored two points. And that's not what you call a run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  It is the recognition of this divine necessity -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  It is the recognition of this divine necessity -- not to forgive, but to forgive in a way which shows that God is irreconcilable to evil, and can never treat it as other or less than it is -- it is the recognition of this divine necessity, or the failure to recognise it, which ultimately divides interpreters of Christianity into evangelical and non-evangelical, those who are true to the New Testament and those who cannot digest it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I paint with shapes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3359]]></link><description><![CDATA[I paint with shapes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gives us the very quintessence of perception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46059]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gives us the very quintessence of perception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot masturbate]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16357]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All limits are self imposed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20662]]></link><description><![CDATA[All limits are self imposed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Jewes spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in sutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Jewes spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in sutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're looking forward to the next step in the process, and it's a process that will go on over a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38241]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're looking forward to the next step in the process, and it's a process that will go on over a period of months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8973]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so... yeah.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31697]]></link><description><![CDATA[This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to identify the innocent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor,  A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave--   The world goes round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57224]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor,  A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave--   The world goes round forever;    I think that life is not too long,     And therefore I determine,      That many people read a song,       Who will not read a sermon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28054]]></link><description><![CDATA[With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We told him he could play and we would watch. That was the first time he broke down and said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41214]]></link><description><![CDATA[We told him he could play and we would watch. That was the first time he broke down and said he couldn't and couldn't and couldn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Privatization is the worst idea to try to protect Social Security. It's nuts. We have to find ways to keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Privatization is the worst idea to try to protect Social Security. It's nuts. We have to find ways to keep pensions secure, as well as Social Security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They typically had a game plan in mind. A lot of them are still hesitating. Until they really see it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35327]]></link><description><![CDATA[They typically had a game plan in mind. A lot of them are still hesitating. Until they really see it starting to move up significantly, it's very difficult for them psychologically to move away from that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The prosecutor's theory on this case has taken more evolutions than Darwin," said one of Lisa Holland's two attorneys, Andrew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29211]]></link><description><![CDATA["The prosecutor's theory on this case has taken more evolutions than Darwin," said one of Lisa Holland's two attorneys, Andrew Abood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of kids get caught in a gap. They think they're going to college, but when they graduate, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33190]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of kids get caught in a gap. They think they're going to college, but when they graduate, they have a job or are not sure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate To tell again a tale once fully told. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate To tell again a tale once fully told.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59096]]></link><description><![CDATA[A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. [Fr., Il y a du merite sans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27388]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. [Fr., Il y a du merite sans elevation mais il n'y a point d'elevation sans quelque merite.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65367]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another lean unwashed artificer. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another lean unwashed artificer. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wild Ass and the LionA wild ass and a Lion entered into an alliance so that they might capture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wild Ass and the LionA wild ass and a Lion entered into an alliance so that they might capture the beasts of the forest with greater ease. The Lion agreed to assist the Wild Ass with his strength, while the Wild Ass gave the Lion the benefit of his greater speed. When they had taken as many beasts as their necessities required, the Lion undertook to distribute the prey, and for this purpose divided it into three shares. I will take the first share, he said, because I am King: and the second share, as a partner with you in the chase: and the third share (believe me) will be a source of great evil to you, unless you willingly resign it to me, and set off as fast as you can. Might makes right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While final figures on the number of people in need of urgent assistance are still being established, donors must respond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36563]]></link><description><![CDATA[While final figures on the number of people in need of urgent assistance are still being established, donors must respond now if we are going to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In their search for environmental influences in human health, study researchers plan to examine such factors as the food children ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34096]]></link><description><![CDATA[In their search for environmental influences in human health, study researchers plan to examine such factors as the food children eat, the air they breathe, their schools and neighborhoods, how often they see a health care provider and even the composition of the house dust in their homes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16355]]></link><description><![CDATA[In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome evill, if thou commest alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome evill, if thou commest alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13429]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43921]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43921</guid></item></channel></rss>