<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>England - 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[They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13923]]></link><description><![CDATA[They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur pays.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13920]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In these troublesome days when the great Mother Empire stands splendidly isolated in Europe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13922]]></link><description><![CDATA[In these troublesome days when the great Mother Empire stands splendidly isolated in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those pigmy tribes of Panton street, Those hardy blades, those hearts of oak,  Obedient to a tyrant's yoke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those pigmy tribes of Panton street, Those hardy blades, those hearts of oak,  Obedient to a tyrant's yoke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13900]]></link><description><![CDATA[England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Pitt then boast of his victory to his nation of shopkeepers--(Nation Boutiquiere). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Pitt then boast of his victory to his nation of shopkeepers--(Nation Boutiquiere).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English. [Fr., Quoique leurs chapeaux sont bien laids, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13902]]></link><description><![CDATA[In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English. [Fr., Quoique leurs chapeaux sont bien laids,  Goddam! j'aime les anglais.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13903]]></link><description><![CDATA[This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! the perfidious English! [Fr., Ah! la perfide Angleterre!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! the perfidious English! [Fr., Ah! la perfide Angleterre!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field  That is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13905]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field  That is forever England. There shall be   In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;    A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,     Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,      A body of England's, breathing English air,       Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there,  And whoever wakes in England   Sees some morning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there,  And whoever wakes in England   Sees some morning, unaware,    That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf,     Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf      While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough       In England--now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in England.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13908]]></link><description><![CDATA[England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of England! who inherit Rights that cost your sires their blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of England! who inherit Rights that cost your sires their blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep;  Her march is o'er the mountain wave,   Her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep;  Her march is o'er the mountain wave,   Her home is on the deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In England three are sixty different religions, and only one sauce. [It., Il y en Angleterre soizante sectes religieuses differentes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13911]]></link><description><![CDATA[In England three are sixty different religions, and only one sauce. [It., Il y en Angleterre soizante sectes religieuses differentes, et une seule sauce.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A certain man has called us, "of all peoples the wisest in action," but he added, "the stupidest in speech." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13913]]></link><description><![CDATA[A certain man has called us, "of all peoples the wisest in action," but he added, "the stupidest in speech."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bind her, grind her, burn her with fire, Cast her ashes into the sea,--  She shall escape, she shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bind her, grind her, burn her with fire, Cast her ashes into the sea,--  She shall escape, she shall aspire,   She shall arise to make men free;    She shall arise in a sacred scorn,     Lighting the lives that are yet unborn,      Spirit supernal, splendor eternal,       England!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a glorious charter, deny it who can, That's breathed in the words, "I'm an Englishman." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13917]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a glorious charter, deny it who can, That's breathed in the words, "I'm an Englishman."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left  Where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13918]]></link><description><![CDATA[England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left  Where English minds and manners may be found,   Shall be constrained to love thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13918</guid></item></channel></rss>