Mother Quotes: Celebrating the Love & Wisdom of Mothers (Page 3)

"Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth"

Voltaire, Writer

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it"

Mark Twain, Author

"Necessity is the mother of taking chances"

Mark Twain, Author

"God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Necessity... the mother of invention"

Plato, Philosopher

"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Silence is the mother of truth"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology"

Ronald Reagan, President

"A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest.""

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone"

George Foreman, Athlete

"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process"

John F. Kennedy, President

"His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork"

Mae West, Actress

"A mother who is really a mother is never free"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse"

Paul Lynde, Comedian

"Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory"

Will Durant, Historian

"Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her"

George Washington, President

"I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers"

Tina Turner, Musician

"Mothers are all slightly insane"

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

"I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by a mother who sees that the others get it"

Marcelene Cox, Writer

"Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants"

Coco Chanel, Designer

"You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother"

Georg Brandes, Critic

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