<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Guilt - 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[Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt.screenwriter of FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt.screenwriter of FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every guilty person is his own hangman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every guilty person is his own hangman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend,Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behindWith whips and stings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend,Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behindWith whips and stings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is a sure sign your thinking is unnatural.*HS was the amanuensis for the Course In Miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is a sure sign your thinking is unnatural.*HS was the amanuensis for the Course In Miracles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18500]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who start war often know that because of theirhigh political position their own lives will not be indanger.on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who start war often know that because of theirhigh political position their own lives will not be indanger.on the Diane Rehm Show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18498]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal a crown. The sin lessens as the guilt increases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18486]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is anything you did and fear others to know about ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is anything you did and fear others to know about]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18488]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18489]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18491]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18492]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is always jealous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is always jealous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who flees from trial confesses his guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18496]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will. [Lat., Haud est nocens, quicumque non sponte ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18476]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will. [Lat., Haud est nocens, quicumque non sponte est nocens.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. [Lat., Multa trepidus solet  Detegere vultus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18477]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. [Lat., Multa trepidus solet  Detegere vultus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18478]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18479]]></link><description><![CDATA[But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much  That I myself was to myself not mine,   Valuing of her--why she, O, she is fall'n    Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea     Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,      And salt too little which may season give       To her foul tainted flesh!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A guilty conscience never feels secure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18480]]></link><description><![CDATA[A guilty conscience never feels secure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who flees from trial confesses his guilt. [Lat., Fatetur facinus is qui judicum fugit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18481]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who flees from trial confesses his guilt. [Lat., Fatetur facinus is qui judicum fugit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A land of levity is a land of guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18483]]></link><description><![CDATA[A land of levity is a land of guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!  Of all his guilt let him be shriven,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!  Of all his guilt let him be shriven,   And smooth his path from earth to heaven!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more wretched that the mind of a man conscious of guilt. [Lat., Nihil est miserius quam animus hominis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more wretched that the mind of a man conscious of guilt. [Lat., Nihil est miserius quam animus hominis conscius.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18474]]></link><description><![CDATA[How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nearly all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18463]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How guilt once harbour'd in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18464]]></link><description><![CDATA[How guilt once harbour'd in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care,  And must be yours, that guilty men escape not: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18465]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care,  And must be yours, that guilty men escape not:   As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. [Lat., Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi  Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se   Judice nemo nocens absolvitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. [Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. [Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio plus facunda.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who guilt stains it equals. [Lat., Facinus quos inquinat aequat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who guilt stains it equals. [Lat., Facinus quos inquinat aequat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge. [Lat., Nulla manus belli, mutato judice, pura est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge. [Lat., Nulla manus belli, mutato judice, pura est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18470]]></link><description><![CDATA[These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! [Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! [Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. [Lat., Dum ne ob male facta peream, parvi aestimo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. [Lat., Dum ne ob male facta peream, parvi aestimo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is anger directed at ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18455</guid></item></channel></rss>