<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Public - 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[No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52470]]></link><description><![CDATA[No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classes and masses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classes and masses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.  [Ger., Ich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.  [Ger., Ich wunschte sehr, der Menge zu behagen,   Besonders weil sie lebt und leben lasst.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52468]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it. [Ger., Wer dem Publicum dient, ist ein armes Thier;  Er qualt sich ab, niemand bedankt sich dafur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing as "the man in the street" (as we call him as Newmarket) always does, the greatest secrets of kings, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing as "the man in the street" (as we call him as Newmarket) always does, the greatest secrets of kings, and being the confidant of their most hidden thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This many-headed monster, Multitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52461]]></link><description><![CDATA[This many-headed monster, Multitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key of the fields (street). [Fr., La clef des champs.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52462]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key of the fields (street). [Fr., La clef des champs.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might?  Nor is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52463]]></link><description><![CDATA[For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might?  Nor is the people's judgment always true:   The most may err as grossly as the few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man in the street does not know a star in the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52464]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good part of sagacity to have known the foolish desires of the crowd and their unreasonable notions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52465]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good part of sagacity to have known the foolish desires of the crowd and their unreasonable notions. [Lat., Bona prudentiae pars est nosse stultas vulgi cupiditates, et absurdas opiniones.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52455]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public? [Fr., Le public! le public! combien ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public? [Fr., Le public! le public! combien faut-il de sots pour faire un public?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. [Lat., Qui ex ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52458]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. [Lat., Qui ex errore imperitae multitudinis pendet, hic in magnis viris non est habendus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa aestimat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fickle populace always change with the prince. [Lat., Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fickle populace always change with the prince. [Lat., Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52450]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness. [Lat., Nec audiendi sunt qui solent dicere vox populi, vox dei; cum tumultus vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one? [Lat., Vox populi habet aliquid divinum: nam quomo do aliter tot capita in unum conspirare possint?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . for thou art a stiff-necked people. . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52452]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . for thou art a stiff-necked people. . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great unwashed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great unwashed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the streets, on the roads, and in the markets, instructs the ear of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the streets, on the roads, and in the markets, instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously arranged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hence ye profane; I hate ye all; Both the great vulgar, and the small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hence ye profane; I hate ye all; Both the great vulgar, and the small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The multitude is always in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The multitude is always in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47492</guid></item></channel></rss>