<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Reputation - 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[It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66877]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53917]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53914]]></link><description><![CDATA[A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53909]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53910]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53905]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is go t by many actions and lost by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53908]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is go t by many actions and lost by one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53902]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53896]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Convey a libel in a frown. And wink a reputation down! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Convey a libel in a frown. And wink a reputation down!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good reputation is more valuable than money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53898]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good reputation is more valuable than money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have offended reputation, A most unnoble swerving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have offended reputation, A most unnoble swerving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see my reputation is at stake; My fame is shrewdly gored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see my reputation is at stake; My fame is shrewdly gored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53893]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dear dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford  Is spotless reputation. That away,   Man are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53894]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dear dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford  Is spotless reputation. That away,   Man are but gilded loam or painted clay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land, Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;  And thou, too careless patient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land, Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;  And thou, too careless patient as thou art,   Committ'st thy anointed body to the cure    Of those physicians that first wounded thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;  One speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53889]]></link><description><![CDATA[In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;  One speaks the glory of the British queen,   And one describes a charming Indian screen;    A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;     At every word a reputation dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear. [Ger., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear. [Ger., Das Aergste weiss die Welt von mir, und ich  Kann sagen, ich bin besser als mein Ruf.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53881]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him. [Ger., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53882]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him. [Ger., Ich halte nichts von dem, der von sich denkt  Wie ihn das Volk vielleicht erheben mochte.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime,  Who for advancement of his kind   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53886]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime,  Who for advancement of his kind   Is wiser than his time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53887]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be pointed out with the finger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53888]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be pointed out with the finger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53876]]></link><description><![CDATA[And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53877]]></link><description><![CDATA[To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No book was ever written down by any but itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53878]]></link><description><![CDATA[No book was ever written down by any but itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me. [Lat., Nemo me lacrymis decoret, nec funera fletu.  Faxit cur? Volito vivu' per ora virum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53880]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53872]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53874]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53875]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My reputation grows with every failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53867]]></link><description><![CDATA[My reputation grows with every failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53869]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53870]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53870</guid></item></channel></rss>