<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Slander - 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[Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56565]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; ere long she shall appear to vindicate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; ere long she shall appear to vindicate thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft-buzzing Slander; silly moths that eat An honest name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft-buzzing Slander; silly moths that eat An honest name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slanders are like flies, that pass all over a man's good parts to light on his sores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slanders are like flies, that pass all over a man's good parts to light on his sores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56560]]></link><description><![CDATA[A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56562]]></link><description><![CDATA[To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here; Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear,  The which no balm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56556]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here; Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear,  The which no balm can cure but his heart-blood   Which breathed this poison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can do it By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,  She shall not long continue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56557]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can do it By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,  She shall not long continue love to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Done to death by slanderous tongues Was the Hero that here lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Done to death by slanderous tongues Was the Hero that here lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be hanged if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue,  Some cogging, cozening slave, to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56554]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be hanged if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue,  Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,   Have not devised this slander.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;  The ornament ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56555]]></link><description><![CDATA[That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;  The ornament of beauty is suspect,   A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.    So thou be good, slander doth but approve     Thy worth the greater, being wooed of time;      For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love,       And thou present'st a pure unstained prime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And truly, I'll devise some honest slanders To stain my cousin with. One doth not know  How much an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56551]]></link><description><![CDATA[And truly, I'll devise some honest slanders To stain my cousin with. One doth not know  How much an ill word may empoison liking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God knows I loved my niece, And she is dead, slandered to death by villains,  That dare as well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56552]]></link><description><![CDATA[God knows I loved my niece, And she is dead, slandered to death by villains,  That dare as well answer a man indeed   As I dare take a serpent by the tongue.    Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas slander filled her mouth with lying words; Slander, the foulest whelp of Sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56548]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas slander filled her mouth with lying words; Slander, the foulest whelp of Sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . For slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56549]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . For slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue  Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56550]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue  Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath   Rides on the posting winds and doth belie    All corners of the world. Kings, queens. and states,     Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave      This viperous slander enters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cut Men's throats with whisperings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cut Men's throats with whisperings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise. . . . The scandal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56546]]></link><description><![CDATA[For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise. . . . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged--the former by their tongues, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged--the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears. [Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina,  Si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant,   Gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56543]]></link><description><![CDATA[A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56544]]></link><description><![CDATA[If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation his defense ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation his defense]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are . . . robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56541]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are . . . robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50418</guid></item></channel></rss>