Envy - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14047<![CDATA[Envy is honors foe. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14048<![CDATA[They that envy others are their inferiors. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14049<![CDATA[Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14050<![CDATA[Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14051<![CDATA[Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14052<![CDATA[Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14054<![CDATA[How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14046<![CDATA[Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. [Lat., Summa petit livor: perflant altissima venti.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14022<![CDATA[Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer. [Lat., Ingenium magni detractat livor Homeri.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14023<![CDATA[Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14024<![CDATA[Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14025<![CDATA[Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. [Lat., L'invidia, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14026<![CDATA[It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14027<![CDATA[The general's disdained By him one step below, he by the next, The next by him beneath; so every ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14028<![CDATA[Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14029<![CDATA[My mind gave me, In seeking tales and informations Against this man, whose honesty the devil And ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14030<![CDATA[We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14031<![CDATA[Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can-- ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14032<![CDATA[Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou her ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14033<![CDATA[Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14034<![CDATA[It is in the character if very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14035<![CDATA[I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14036<![CDATA[Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14037<![CDATA[Our envy of others devours us most of all. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14038<![CDATA[Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14039<![CDATA[Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14040<![CDATA[The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14041<![CDATA[If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14042<![CDATA[The only person worth envying is he person who doesn't envy. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14043<![CDATA[As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14044<![CDATA[Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14045<![CDATA[It is better to be envied than pitied. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14012<![CDATA[The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14013<![CDATA[The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. [Lat., Invidus alterius marescit ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14014<![CDATA[If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natured? [Lat., ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14015<![CDATA[Envy! eldest-born of hell! ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14016<![CDATA[Envy, like fire, soars upward. [Lat., Invidiam, tamquam ignem, summa petere.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14017<![CDATA[No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire vult.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14018<![CDATA[I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14019<![CDATA[The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14020<![CDATA[Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead. [Lat., Pascitur in vivis livor; post fata quiescit.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14021<![CDATA[You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13998<![CDATA[Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13999<![CDATA[Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely? ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14000<![CDATA[Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14001<![CDATA[Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14002<![CDATA[Envy shoots at others and wounds itself ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14003<![CDATA[Envy eats nothing but its own heart ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14004<![CDATA[Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14005