<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Authority - 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[Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3501]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3502]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The faith that stand on authority is not faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The faith that stand on authority is not faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Authority is quite degrading ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Authority is quite degrading]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3477]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3478]]></link><description><![CDATA[To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3479]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All authority belongs to the people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3481]]></link><description><![CDATA[All authority belongs to the people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ð your mind and your mouth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3482]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ð your mind and your mouth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisest have the most authority ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisest have the most authority]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3485]]></link><description><![CDATA[All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.   - Francis Bacon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3486]]></link><description><![CDATA[For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates;  The fumes of it invade the brain,   And make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates;  The fumes of it invade the brain,   And make men giddy, proud, and vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3488]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Authority is never without hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Authority is never without hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you  His absolute 'shall'? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you  His absolute 'shall'?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the creature run from the cur. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority--a dog's obeyed in office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in live. Now does he feel his title  Hang loose about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in live. Now does he feel his title  Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe   Upon a dwarfish thief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight  The words of heaven; on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight  The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will,   On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt  Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak   Than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt  Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak   Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man,    Dressed in a little brief authority,     Most ignorant of what he's most assured      His glassy essence--like an angry ape       Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven        As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,         would all themselves laugh mortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He seems to be of great authority. Close with him, give him gold; and though authority be a stubborn bear, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3496]]></link><description><![CDATA[He seems to be of great authority. Close with him, give him gold; and though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widow'd of the power in his eye  That bow'd the will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widow'd of the power in his eye  That bow'd the will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A position of authority is neither necessary nor sufficient for the exercise of leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3499]]></link><description><![CDATA[A position of authority is neither necessary nor sufficient for the exercise of leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3499</guid></item></channel></rss>