<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Honor - 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[I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63883]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63794]]></link><description><![CDATA[All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't look for more honor than your learning merits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not consider what you may do, but what it will become you to have done, and let the sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not consider what you may do, but what it will become you to have done, and let the sense of honor subdue your mind. [Lat., Nec tibi quid liceat, sed quid fecisse decebit  Occurrat, mentemque domet respectus honesti.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor lies in honest toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor lies in honest toil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it. [Lat., Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfaire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it. [Lat., Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfaire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And all at Worcester but the honour lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19721]]></link><description><![CDATA[And all at Worcester but the honour lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Titles of honour add not to his worth, Who is himself an honour of his titles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Titles of honour add not to his worth, Who is himself an honour of his titles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madame, that you may know the state of the rest of my misfortune, there is nothing left to me but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madame, that you may know the state of the rest of my misfortune, there is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved. [Lat., Madame, pour vous faire savoir comme se porte le reste de mon infortune, de toutes choses m'est demeure que l'honneur et la vie qui est sauve.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation:  Title and profit I resign;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation:  Title and profit I resign;   The post of honor shall be mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your word is a s good as the Bank, Sir. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your word is a s good as the Bank, Sir.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honour is but an itch in youthful blood Of doing acts extravagantly good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honour is but an itch in youthful blood Of doing acts extravagantly good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.  His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.  His cares must still be double to his joys,   In any dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19728]]></link><description><![CDATA[When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought. [Lat., Semper in fide quid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19716]]></link><description><![CDATA[In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought. [Lat., Semper in fide quid senseris, non quid dixeris, cogitandum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you. [Lat., Nulla est laus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19717]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you. [Lat., Nulla est laus ibi esse integrum, ubi nemo est, qui aut possit aut conetur rumpere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19700]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19701]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19702]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dead on the field of honour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dead on the field of honour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19704]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away,  The post of honor is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away,  The post of honor is a private station.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19707]]></link><description><![CDATA[The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness. [Lat., Turpe quid ausurus, te sine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19708]]></link><description><![CDATA[When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness. [Lat., Turpe quid ausurus, te sine teste time.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of the times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19710]]></link><description><![CDATA[These were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of the times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside. [Fr., L'honneur est comme une ile escarpee et sans bords;  On n'y peut plus rentrer des qu'on en est dehors.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If he that in the field is slain Be in the bed of honour lain,  He that is beaten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19712]]></link><description><![CDATA[If he that in the field is slain Be in the bed of honour lain,  He that is beaten may be said   To lie in Honour's truckle-bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, while the honour thou hast got Is spick and span new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, while the honour thou hast got Is spick and span new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is like a widow, won With brisk attempt and putting on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is like a widow, won With brisk attempt and putting on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As quick as lightning, in the breach Just in the place where honour's lodged,  As wise philosophers have judged, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19715]]></link><description><![CDATA[As quick as lightning, in the breach Just in the place where honour's lodged,  As wise philosophers have judged,   Because a kick in that place more    Hurts honour than deep wounds before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19695]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19696]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fail to honor people,they fail to honor you; but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fail to honor people,they fail to honor you; but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, 'We did this ourselves.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9832</guid></item></channel></rss>