<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Motherhood - 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 pretty and sweet manner of it forced Those waters from me which I would have stopped;  But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pretty and sweet manner of it forced Those waters from me which I would have stopped;  But I had not so much of man in me,   And all my mother came into mine eyes    And gave me up to tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43211]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And say to mothers what a holy charge Is theirs--with what a kingly power their love  Might rule the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43212]]></link><description><![CDATA[And say to mothers what a holy charge Is theirs--with what a kingly power their love  Might rule the fountains of the new-born mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell,  Or kiss the place to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell,  Or kiss the place to make it well/   My mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43214]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind  Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind  Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high   Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall,    He shall not blind his soul with clay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea,  He wields a mighty scepter   O'er ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43217]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea,  He wields a mighty scepter   O'er lesser powers that be;    But a mightier power and stronger     Man from his throne has hurled,      For the hand that rocks the cradle       Is the hand that rules the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43218]]></link><description><![CDATA[All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,  And by its weakness overcomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43205]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,  And by its weakness overcomes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when?  On the maps of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when?  On the maps of the world you will find it not;   It was fought by the mothers of men.   - Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fostering mother. [Lat., Alma mater.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fostering mother. [Lat., Alma mater.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say man rules the universe, That subject shore and main  Kneel down and bless the empery   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43208]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say man rules the universe, That subject shore and main  Kneel down and bless the empery   Of his majestic reign;    But a sovereign, gentler, mightier,     Man from his throne has hurled,      For the hand that rocks the cradle       Is the hand that rules the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,  So excellent a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43209]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,  So excellent a king, that was to this   Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother    That he might not beteem the winds of heaven     Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth,      Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him       As if increase of appetite had grown        By what it fed on, and yet within a month--         Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman--          A little month, or ere those shoes were old           With which she followed my poor father's body            Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she--             O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason              Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle,               My father's brother, but no more like my father                Than I to Hercules.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother says to her daughter: Daughter bid thy daughter, to her daughter, that her daughter's daughter is crying. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother says to her daughter: Daughter bid thy daughter, to her daughter, that her daughter's daughter is crying. [Lat., Mater ait natae die natae filia natum  Ut moneat natae plangere filiolam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is none, In all this cold and hollow world, no fount  Of deep, strong, deathless love, save that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43201]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is none, In all this cold and hollow world, no fount  Of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within   A mother's heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!  I know whose love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43203]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!  I know whose love would follow me still,   Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43204]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43195]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43196]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43198]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43199]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43190]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One woman will brag about her children, while another complains about hers; they could probably swap children without swapping tunes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43191]]></link><description><![CDATA[One woman will brag about her children, while another complains about hers; they could probably swap children without swapping tunes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43193]]></link><description><![CDATA[A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the cross, her station keeping, Stood the mournful mother, weeping,  Where He hung, the dying Lord.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43194]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the cross, her station keeping, Stood the mournful mother, weeping,  Where He hung, the dying Lord.   [Lat., Stabat mater, dolorosa    Juxta crucem lacrymosa     Que pendebat Filius.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know that birth takes a woman from one place in her life to another. The birth of a child ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43188]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know that birth takes a woman from one place in her life to another. The birth of a child certainly does change her viewpoint of herself and I believe her viewpoint of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5270]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5270</guid></item></channel></rss>