<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Pride - 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[One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65119]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48230]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, supped with Infamy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, supped with Infamy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48225]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48226]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is this paradox in pride--it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48229]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is this paradox in pride--it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48214]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48217]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48218]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is the mask of one's own faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is the mask of one's own faults.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48224]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48206]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees  Feed arrogance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48208]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees  Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She bears a duke's revenues on her back, And in her heart she scorns our poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48209]]></link><description><![CDATA[She bears a duke's revenues on her back, And in her heart she scorns our poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,  This many summers in a sea of glory, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48210]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,  This many summers in a sea of glory,   But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride    At length broke under me, and now has left me,     Weary and old with service, to the mercy      Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O world, how apt the poor are to be proud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48211]]></link><description><![CDATA[O world, how apt the poor are to be proud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check,  Richer than doing nothing for a robe,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48204]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check,  Richer than doing nothing for a robe,   Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk:    Such pain the cap of him that makes him fine     Yet keeps his book uncrossed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it Cry 'No recovery.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48205]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it Cry 'No recovery.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,  A flash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,  A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,   Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48198]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.  Pride still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48199]]></link><description><![CDATA[In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.  Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,   Men would be angels, angels would be gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;  So perish all, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;  So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow   For others' good, or melt at others' woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.   - John Ruskin, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48202]]></link><description><![CDATA[In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.   - John Ruskin,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, who cries out on pride That can therein tax any private party?  Doth it not flow as hugely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, who cries out on pride That can therein tax any private party?  Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea   Till that the weary very means do ebb?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord of human kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord of human kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too rigid scruples are concealed pride. [Ger., Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too rigid scruples are concealed pride. [Ger., Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48186]]></link><description><![CDATA[A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As proud as Lucifer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48187]]></link><description><![CDATA[As proud as Lucifer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48190]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48185]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19695]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17072</guid></item></channel></rss>