<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Courtiers - 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[To laugh, to lie, to flatter to face, Foure waies in court to win men's grace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10452]]></link><description><![CDATA[To laugh, to lie, to flatter to face, Foure waies in court to win men's grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mere court butterfly, That flutters in the pageant of a monarch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10453]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mere court butterfly, That flutters in the pageant of a monarch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear;  And, as their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10454]]></link><description><![CDATA[To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear;  And, as their patron hints the cold or heat,   To shake in dog-days, in December sweat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,  More pangs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10455]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,  More pangs and fears than wars or women have;   And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,    Never to hope again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe: With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er,  Each smooth as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10456]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe: With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er,  Each smooth as those that mutually deceive,   And for their falsehood each despising each.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10456</guid></item></channel></rss>