<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Goodness - 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[To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64622]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17867]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17868]]></link><description><![CDATA[The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That good diffused may more abundant grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17851]]></link><description><![CDATA[That good diffused may more abundant grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood, He tried the luxury of doing good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood, He tried the luxury of doing good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17854]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old,  And life's latest sands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old,  And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17857]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all their luxury was doing good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17858]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all their luxury was doing good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.  [Ger., Ein guter Mensch, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17859]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.  [Ger., Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunkeln Drange,   Ist sich des rechten Weges sohl bewusst.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17860]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17861]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17863]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All good things are wild, and free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17833]]></link><description><![CDATA[All good things are wild, and free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17834]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17835]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. [Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17836]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. [Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever any one does or says, I must be good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever any one does or says, I must be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust  That what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17838]]></link><description><![CDATA[What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust  That what will come, and must come, shall come well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance,  For the future in the distance,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17840]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance,  For the future in the distance,   And the good that I can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17842]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good he scorned Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost,  Not to return; or if it did, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17843]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good he scorned Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost,  Not to return; or if it did, in visits   Like those of angels, short and far between.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud;  And sure, the reverent eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17844]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud;  And sure, the reverent eye must see   A purpose in Liquidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17845]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound;  What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more;   On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No good Book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17846]]></link><description><![CDATA[No good Book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can one desire too much of a good thing? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can one desire too much of a good thing?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17848]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. [Lat., Ergo hoc proprium est animi bene constituti, et laetari bonis rebus, et dolere contrariis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the good of it? for whose advantage? [Lat., Cui bono?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17850]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the good of it? for whose advantage? [Lat., Cui bono?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17828]]></link><description><![CDATA[True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonesome ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonesome]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17830]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goodness is the only investment that never fails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goodness is the only investment that never fails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, Do all the good you can,  To all the people you can,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14106]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, Do all the good you can,  To all the people you can,   In all the ways you can,    As long as ever you can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3806]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1232]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/766</guid></item></channel></rss>