<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Misery - 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[Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42788]]></link><description><![CDATA[A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42789]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42782]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is down need fear no fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42784]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is down need fear no fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42774]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42776]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If misery loves company, misery has company enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42777]]></link><description><![CDATA[If misery loves company, misery has company enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42779]]></link><description><![CDATA[People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the physician of each misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the physician of each misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;  And in his needy shop a tortoise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;  And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,   An alligator stuffed, and other skins    Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves     A beggarly account of boxes,      Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds,       Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses        Were thinly scattered, to make up a show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, misery makes sport to mock itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42772]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, misery makes sport to mock itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of which misery I saw, part of which I was. [Lat., Quaeque ipse misserrima vidi, et quorum pars magna ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42773]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of which misery I saw, part of which I was. [Lat., Quaeque ipse misserrima vidi, et quorum pars magna fui.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries. [Lat., Miserias properant suas  Audire miseri.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42768]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries. [Lat., Miserias properant suas  Audire miseri.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy,  Kinsman to a grim and comfortless despair,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy,  Kinsman to a grim and comfortless despair,   And at her heels a huge infectious troop    Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? [Fr., Il ne se ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42762]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? [Fr., Il ne se faut jamais moquer des miserables,  Car qui peut s'assurer d'etre toujours heureux?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child of misery, baptized in tears! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42763]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child of misery, baptized in tears!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42764]]></link><description><![CDATA[But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42765]]></link><description><![CDATA[And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misery travels free through the whole world! [Ger., Frei geht das Ungluck durch die ganze Erde!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misery travels free through the whole world! [Ger., Frei geht das Ungluck durch die ganze Erde!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men. [Lat., Ignis aurum probat, misera fortes viros.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men. [Lat., Ignis aurum probat, misera fortes viros.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things  Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42757]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things  Condemns itself in youth to petty joys,   And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life    Gasping from out the shallows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grim-visaged, comfortless despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42759]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This, this is misery! the last, the worst, That man can feel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42760]]></link><description><![CDATA[This, this is misery! the last, the worst, That man can feel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42761]]></link><description><![CDATA[That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight. [Lat., Levis est consolatio ex miseria aliorum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42755]]></link><description><![CDATA[The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight. [Lat., Levis est consolatio ex miseria aliorum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a piece of orange-peel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a piece of orange-peel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42750]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42752]]></link><description><![CDATA[The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misery is almost always the result of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misery is almost always the result of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine but hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42749]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine but hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14005</guid></item></channel></rss>