<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Rumor - 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[The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small town. [Lat., Fama volat parvam subito vulgata per urbem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small town. [Lat., Fama volat parvam subito vulgata per urbem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It (rumour) has a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron. [Lat., Linguae centum sunt, oraque centum  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54567]]></link><description><![CDATA[It (rumour) has a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron. [Lat., Linguae centum sunt, oraque centum  Ferrea vox.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What some invent the rest enlarge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54560]]></link><description><![CDATA[What some invent the rest enlarge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54561]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate. [Lat., Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate. [Lat., Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54564]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its very activity and gains new strength by its movements; small at first through fear, it soon raises itself aloft and sweeps onward along the earth. Yet its head reaches the clouds. . . . A huge and horrid monster covered with many feathers: and for every plume a sharp eye, for every pinion a biting tongue. Everywhere its voices sound, to everything its ears are open. [Lat., Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes: Fama malum quo non velocius ullum;  Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo;   Parva metu primo; mox sese attollit in auras,    Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubilia condit.     . . . .      Monstrum, horrendum ingens; cui quot sunt corpore plumae       Tot vigiles oculi subter, mirabile dictu,        Tot linquae, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit aures.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enemies carry a report in form different from the original. [Lat., Nam inimici famam non ita ut nata est ferunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enemies carry a report in form different from the original. [Lat., Nam inimici famam non ita ut nata est ferunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flying rumours gather'd as the roll'd, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told;  And all who told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flying rumours gather'd as the roll'd, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told;  And all who told it added something new.   And all who heard it made enlargements too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54556]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be gone, That pitiful rumor may report my flight  To consolate thine ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54557]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be gone, That pitiful rumor may report my flight  To consolate thine ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures,  And of so easy and so plain a stop  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures,  And of so easy and so plain a stop   That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,    The still-discordant wavering multitude,     Can play upon it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54551]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys when the storm is drawing near, Like the rolling of the ocean in the eventide of fear? 'Tis the people marching on]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idle rumors were also added to well-founded apprehensions. [Lat., Vana quoque ad veros accessit fama timores.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idle rumors were also added to well-founded apprehensions. [Lat., Vana quoque ad veros accessit fama timores.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard. [Lat., Hi narrata ferunt alio; mensuraque ficti  Crescit et auditus aliquid novus adjicit auctor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumor is not always wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rumor is not always wrong]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buy the rumor and sell the fact ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buy the rumor and sell the fact]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17880]]></link><description><![CDATA[And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17880</guid></item></channel></rss>