<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Gods - 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[Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require succession, since they are always about to exist?rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ox-eyes awful Juno. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ox-eyes awful Juno.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17752]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls  Upon the Sovereign One's immortal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17754]]></link><description><![CDATA[The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls  Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head   Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount,    Olympus trembled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shakes his ambroisal curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shakes his ambroisal curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods. [Lat., Omnia fanda, nefanda, malo permista furore,  Justificam nobis mentem avertere deorum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we? [Lat., O dii immortales! ubinam gentium sumus?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we? [Lat., O dii immortales! ubinam gentium sumus?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never, believe me, Appear the Immortals,  Never alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never, believe me, Appear the Immortals,  Never alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's self's thy Ganymede. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's self's thy Ganymede.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With ravish'd ears The monarch hears,  Assumes the god,   Affects to nod,    And seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17747]]></link><description><![CDATA[With ravish'd ears The monarch hears,  Assumes the god,   Affects to nod,    And seems to shake the spheres.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above!  Beneath the sliding sun thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above!  Beneath the sliding sun thou runn'st thy race,   Dost fairest shine, and best become thy place;    For thee the winds their eastern blasts forbear,     Thy mouth reveals the spring, and opens all the year;      Thee, goddess, thee, the storms of winter fly,       Earth smiles with flowers renewing, laughs the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise,  And interpret your device,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise,  And interpret your device,   . . . .    All things wait for and divine him,--     How shall I dare to malign him?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town,  There's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17751]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town,  There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew,   And the yellow god forever gazes down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is the father of us all, King of all. Some it makes gods, some it makes men, some it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17732]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is the father of us all, King of all. Some it makes gods, some it makes men, some it makes slaves, some free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee, Phidias, or thou to heaven hast gone the god ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee, Phidias, or thou to heaven hast gone the god to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, Phoebus, sang those songs that gained so much renown I, Phoebus, sang them; Homer only wrote them down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17734]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, Phoebus, sang those songs that gained so much renown I, Phoebus, sang them; Homer only wrote them down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be In commune held by Pallas and by thee?  Her pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be In commune held by Pallas and by thee?  Her pleasure is in darts and battles; thine   In joyous feasts and draughts of rosy wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair;  The Grecian gods are like the Greeks,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair;  The Grecian gods are like the Greeks,   As keen-eyed, cold and fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak of the gods as they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak of the gods as they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17739]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air,  Full of spirit's melancholy   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17740]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air,  Full of spirit's melancholy   And eternity's despair!    And they heart the words it said--     Pan is dead! great Pan is dead!      Pan, Pan is dead!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Graces, three erewhile, are three no more; A fourth is come with perfume sprinkled o'er.  'Tis Berenice blest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Graces, three erewhile, are three no more; A fourth is come with perfume sprinkled o'er.  'Tis Berenice blest and fair; were she   Away the Graces would no Graces be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four;  Stella's wit is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four;  Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face,   She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17731]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17731</guid></item></channel></rss>