<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Cities - 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[The point of cities is multiplicity of choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63993]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63543]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dwelt in a city enchanted, And lonely indeed was my lot;  . . . .   Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dwelt in a city enchanted, And lonely indeed was my lot;  . . . .   Though the latitude's rather uncertain,    And the longitude also is vague,     The persons I pity who know not the City      The beautiful City of Prague.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation,  And bury all, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8781]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation,  And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges,   In heaps and piles of ruin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the city but the people? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8782]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the city but the people?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8783]]></link><description><![CDATA[He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh in vain. [Lat., Nisi Dominus frustra.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh in vain. [Lat., Nisi Dominus frustra.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8754]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8755]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8756]]></link><description><![CDATA[If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8757]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get tired of walking around San Francisco, you can always lean against it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8758]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get tired of walking around San Francisco, you can always lean against it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athens--these seven cities contend as to being the birthplace of the illustrious Homer. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athens--these seven cities contend as to being the birthplace of the illustrious Homer. [Lat., Smyrna, Rhodos, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athenae,  Hae septem certant de stirpe insignis Homeri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rose-red city half as old as Time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8762]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rose-red city half as old as Time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me  High mountains are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8763]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me  High mountains are a feeling, but the hum   Of human cities torture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God made the country, and man made the town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8764]]></link><description><![CDATA[God made the country, and man made the town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils,  Trapped in the spectrum of a dying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8765]]></link><description><![CDATA[No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils,  Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style:   A village like an instinct left to rust,    Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the busy haunts of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8767]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the busy haunts of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shroud his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shroud his head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from gay cities, and the ways of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from gay cities, and the ways of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man cannot go to Corinthum. [Lat., Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man cannot go to Corinthum. [Lat., Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even cities have their graves! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even cities have their graves!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abode But the hope, the burning hope, and the road, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abode But the hope, the burning hope, and the road, the lonely road.  Not for us are content, and quiet, and peace of mind,   For we go seeking cities that we shall never find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8750]]></link><description><![CDATA[The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8751]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8753]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8753</guid></item></channel></rss>