<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Childhood - 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[What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64838]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. [Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium virtutum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. [Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium virtutum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are idols of hearts and of households; They are angels of God in disguise;  His sunlight still sleeps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5904]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are idols of hearts and of households; They are angels of God in disguise;  His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses,   His glory still gleams in their eyes;    Those truants from home and from Heaven     They have made me more manly and mild;      And I know now how Jesus could liken       The kingdom of God to a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the lessons and tasks are all ended, And the school for the day is dismissed,  The little one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5905]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the lessons and tasks are all ended, And the school for the day is dismissed,  The little one gather around me,   To bid me good-night and be kissed;    On, the little white arms that encircle     My neck in their tender embrace      Oh, the smiles that are halos of heaven,       Shedding sunshine of love on my face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My lovely living Boy, My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy.   - Guillaume de Salluste ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5906]]></link><description><![CDATA[My lovely living Boy, My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe--  Sailed on a river of crystal light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe--  Sailed on a river of crystal light   Into a sea of dew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd, The sports of children satisfy the child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5910]]></link><description><![CDATA[By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd, The sports of children satisfy the child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims play;  No sense have they of ills to come,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims play;  No sense have they of ills to come,   Nor care beyond to-day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not a life, 'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5888]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not a life, 'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5889]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5890]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5891]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.  Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women know The way to rear up children (to be just);  They know a simple, merry, tender knack  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women know The way to rear up children (to be just);  They know a simple, merry, tender knack   Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes,    And stringing pretty words that make no sense,     And kissing full sense into empty words;      Which things are corals to cut life upon,       Although such trifles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years?  They are leaning their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years?  They are leaning their young heads against their mothers,   And that cannot stop their tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5898]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diogenes struck the father when the son swore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides, they always smell of bread and butter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing, And mischief-making monkey from his birth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5901]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing, And mischief-making monkey from his birth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5877]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5878]]></link><description><![CDATA[We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5879]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5880]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5881]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remaining over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is never too late to have a happy childhood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5884]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is never too late to have a happy childhood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5885]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5887</guid></item></channel></rss>