<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Crime - 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[I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63398]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have too great a soul to die like a criminal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10699]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10688]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10689]]></link><description><![CDATA[All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10692]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear follows crime, and is its punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime is a product of social excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime is a product of social excess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10696]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If blue collar jobs are leavingand white collar jobs are outsourcedwhat color collar jobs are left? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10681]]></link><description><![CDATA[If blue collar jobs are leavingand white collar jobs are outsourcedwhat color collar jobs are left?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10682]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10683]]></link><description><![CDATA[And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10685]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris  Si scelus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris  Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature. [Lat., Ars fit ubi a teneris crimen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature. [Lat., Ars fit ubi a teneris crimen condiscitur annis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crime of a mother is a heavy burden. [Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crime of a mother is a heavy burden. [Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10671]]></link><description><![CDATA[With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the impious; might makes right; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the impious; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law. [Lat., Prosperum ac felix scelus  Virtus vocatur; sontibus patent boni;   Jus est in armis, opprimit leges timor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10674]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set a thief to catch a thief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set a thief to catch a thief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughtercows for my table... and I stopped, but not for 6 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10680]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughtercows for my table... and I stopped, but not for 6 monthsin which I rationalized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. [Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato;  Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10664]]></link><description><![CDATA[By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10665]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,  Facti crimen habet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are not to do evil that good may come of it. [Lat., Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10666]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are not to do evil that good may come of it. [Lat., Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting. [Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis erit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10667]]></link><description><![CDATA[The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting. [Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis erit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. [It., Non nella pena,  Nel delitto e la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. [It., Non nella pena,  Nel delitto e la infamia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. [It., Il reo  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10649]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. [It., Il reo  D'un delitto e chi'l pensa: a chi l' ordisce   La pena spetta.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime. [It., Oh! ben provvide il cielo,  Ch' uom per ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime. [It., Oh! ben provvide il cielo,  Ch' uom per delitto mai lieto non sia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel impune ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel impune quaedam scelesta committi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's not a crime But takes its proper change out still in crime  If once rung on the counter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10652]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's not a crime But takes its proper change out still in crime  If once rung on the counter of this world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,  Can blazon evil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,  Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame. [Fr., Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'echafaud.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10655]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame. [Fr., Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'echafaud.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt  Have each their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10656]]></link><description><![CDATA[But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt  Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder. [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10657]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder. [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.   - James Anthony Froude, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.   - James Anthony Froude,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every crime destroys more Edens than our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10659</guid></item></channel></rss>