<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Conversation - 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[Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They converse as those who know that God hears. [Lat., Ita fabulantur ut qui sciant Dominum audire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10103]]></link><description><![CDATA[They converse as those who know that God hears. [Lat., Ita fabulantur ut qui sciant Dominum audire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10104]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear:  In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10105]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear:  In that the skill of conversation lies;   That shows and makes you both polite and wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10108]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Holy Land needs bridges, not walls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10109]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Holy Land needs bridges, not walls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10112]]></link><description><![CDATA[I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' study of books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10099]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' study of books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With thee conversing I forget all time: All seasons and their change, all please alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10101]]></link><description><![CDATA[With thee conversing I forget all time: All seasons and their change, all please alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Form'd by thy converse, happily steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Form'd by thy converse, happily steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10092]]></link><description><![CDATA[They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when you stick on conversation's burs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10094]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when you stick on conversation's burs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes the hour very correctly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10098]]></link><description><![CDATA[His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes the hour very correctly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10077]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10078]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10079]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10081]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10084]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come  Whate'er the subject be that starts.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10085]]></link><description><![CDATA[With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come  Whate'er the subject be that starts.   But if I get among the glum    I hold my tongue to tell the truth     And keep my breath to cool my broth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10086]]></link><description><![CDATA[In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way,  Should flow, like waters after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10087]]></link><description><![CDATA[But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way,  Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs,   Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation is a game of circles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation is a game of circles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never, with important air, In conversation overbear.  . . . .   My tongue within my lips ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10090]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never, with important air, In conversation overbear.  . . . .   My tongue within my lips I rein;    For who talks much must talk in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With thee conversing I forget the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10091]]></link><description><![CDATA[With thee conversing I forget the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10091</guid></item></channel></rss>