<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Generosity - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17277]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more he cast away the more he had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more he cast away the more he had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17280]]></link><description><![CDATA[All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts are hooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts are hooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17283]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach us to give and not to count the cost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach us to give and not to count the cost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only gift is a portion of thyself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only gift is a portion of thyself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17270]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17275]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What will you put in the stockingof the Baby Jesus?screenwriter of The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant, LorettaYoung, and David's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17276]]></link><description><![CDATA[What will you put in the stockingof the Baby Jesus?screenwriter of The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant, LorettaYoung, and David's Niven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To generous souls every task is noble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17266]]></link><description><![CDATA[To generous souls every task is noble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much easier is it to be generous than just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17267]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much easier is it to be generous than just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17260]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17261]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . in important things, diversity. . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17263]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . in important things, diversity. . . in all things, generosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17245]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17248]]></link><description><![CDATA[To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17249]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17253]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17255]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17256]]></link><description><![CDATA[The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three signs of great men are -- generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17258]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three signs of great men are -- generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2301]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2302]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2302</guid></item></channel></rss>