<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Prison - 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["And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48261]]></link><description><![CDATA["And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In durance vile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48262]]></link><description><![CDATA[In durance vile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me.  . . . .   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48263]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which the world miscalls a jail, A private closet is to me.  . . . .   Locks, bars, and solitude together met,    Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage,  Minds innocent and quiet take   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage,  Minds innocent and quiet take   That for an hermitage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fast closed with double grills And triple gates--the cell  To wicked souls is hell;   But to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fast closed with double grills And triple gates--the cell  To wicked souls is hell;   But to a mind that's innocent    'Tis only iron, wood and stone.     [Fr., Doubles grilles a gros cloux,      Triples portes, forts verroux,       Aux ames vraiment mechantes        Vous representez l'enfer;         Mais aux ames innocentes          Vous n'etes que du bois, des pierres, du fer.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,  Can be retentive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,  Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;   But life, being weary of these worldly bars,    Never lacks power to dismiss itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world;  And, for because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48267]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world;  And, for because the world is populous,   And here is not a creature but myself,    I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48257]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48258]]></link><description><![CDATA[In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in,  I think of those companions true  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in,  I think of those companions true   Who studied with me at the U-    Niversity of Gottingen.   - George Canning, Song--Of One Eleven Years in Prison,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prison'd in a parlour snug and small, Like bottled wasps upon a southern wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prison'd in a parlour snug and small, Like bottled wasps upon a southern wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48260</guid></item></channel></rss>