<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Forgetfulness - 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[One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away;  Agayne I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16483]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away;  Agayne I wrote it with a second hand,   But came the tyde and made my paynes his prey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know. [Lat., Etiam oblivisci quod scis interdum expedit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16484]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know. [Lat., Etiam oblivisci quod scis interdum expedit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16485]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may with advantage forget what we know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16486]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may with advantage forget what we know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And have you been to Borderland? Its country lies on either hand  Beyond the river I-forget.   One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16487]]></link><description><![CDATA[And have you been to Borderland? Its country lies on either hand  Beyond the river I-forget.   One crosses by a single stone    So narrow one must pass alone,     And all about its waters fret--      The laughing river I-forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go, forget me--why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling?  Go, forget me--and to-morrow   Brightly smile ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go, forget me--why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling?  Go, forget me--and to-morrow   Brightly smile and sweetly sing.    Smile--though I shall not be near thee;     Sing--though I shall never hear thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears,  Leave them to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears,  Leave them to bleach out in the open day,   Or lock them careful by, like dead friends' clothes,    Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,--     But we forget not, never can forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot.   - Robert H. Newell (used pseudonym Orpheus C. Kerr), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot.   - Robert H. Newell (used pseudonym Orpheus C. Kerr),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before;  The danger o'er, both are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16479]]></link><description><![CDATA[God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before;  The danger o'er, both are alike requited,   God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16480]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel!" [Lat., Intrantis medici facies tres esse videntur  Aegrotanti; hominis, Daemonis, atque Dei.   Cum primum accessit medicus dixitque salutem,    En Deus aut custos angelus, aeger ait.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our God and soldier we alike adore, When at the brink of ruin, not before;  After deliverance both alike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our God and soldier we alike adore, When at the brink of ruin, not before;  After deliverance both alike requited,   Our God forgotten, and our soldiers slighted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We bury love, Forgetfulness grows over it like grass;  That is a thing to weep for, not the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16482]]></link><description><![CDATA[We bury love, Forgetfulness grows over it like grass;  That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16471]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must get a thing before he can forget it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16472]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must get a thing before he can forget it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies;  The dew dries up; the star ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16473]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies;  The dew dries up; the star is shot;   The flight is past--and man forgot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle-line,  Beneath whose awful Hand we hold  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16474]]></link><description><![CDATA[God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle-line,  Beneath whose awful Hand we hold   Dominion over palm and pine--    Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,     Lest we forget--lest we forget!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tumult and the shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart;  Still stands thine ancient sacrifice,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16475]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tumult and the shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart;  Still stands thine ancient sacrifice,   A humble and a contrite heart.    Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet     Lest we forget,--lest we forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16476]]></link><description><![CDATA[God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16469]]></link><description><![CDATA[But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12865]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12865</guid></item></channel></rss>