Anonymous
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one!

Anonymous
A mother is a person who if she is not there when you get home from school you wouldn't know how to get your dinner, and you wouldn't feel like eating it anyway.

Balzac Honoré De 1799-1850
A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Beecher Henry Ward 1813-1887
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Bennett Jill 1931-1990
Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Blake William 1757-1827
Songs of Experience ‘Infant Sorrow'
My mother groaned! my father wept.
Into the dangerous world I leapt:
Helpless, naked, piping loud;
Like a fiend hid in a cloud.

Bright John 1811-1889
England is the mother of Parliaments.

Disraeli Benjamin 1804-1881
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

Farmer Edward c.1809-1876
‘The Collier's Dying Child'
I have no pain, dear mother, now;
But oh! I am so dry:
Just moisten poor Jim's lips once more;
And, mother, do not cry!

Hussein Saddam 1937-
The mother of battles.

Kassak Lajos
The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.

Lindsey Ben
I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for
Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conventions must not be permitted to blaspheme it.

Milne A.A. 1882-1956
When We Were Very Young ‚Disobedience'
James James
Morrison Morrison
Weatherby George Dupree
Took great
Care of his Mother,
Though he was only three.
James James
Said to his Mother,
`Mother,' he said, said he;
`You must never go down to the end of the
town, if you don't go down with me.'

Milton John 1608-1674
Paradise Lost
The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived
The mother of mankind.

O'Brien Flann 1911-1966
The Hard Life
It is not that I half knew my mother. I knew half of her: the lower half - her lap, legs, feet, her hands and wrists as she bent forward.

Perkins Anthony 1932-1992
in Psycho
„A boy's best friend is his mother."

Proverbs and Sayings
German
Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.

Proverbs and Sayings
Italian
Summer is the mother of the poor.

Proverbs and Sayings
Polish
The greater love is a mother's; then comes a dog's; then a sweetheart's.

Proverbs and Sayings
Spanish
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Sanger Margaret 1883-1966
No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Scott-Maxwell Florida
Mo matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Sedley Sir Charles c.1639-1701
„Love still has something"
Love still has something of the sea
From whence his mother rose.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Sonnet 3
Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.

Swinburne Algernon Charles 1837-1909
‘The Triumph of Time'
I will go back to the great sweet mother,
Mother and lover of men, the sea.
I will go down to her, I and no other,
Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me.

Taylor Ann and Taylor Jane 1782-1866 and 1783-1824
Original Poems for Infant Minds ‘My Mother'
Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My Mother.

Thackeray William Makepeace 1811-1863
Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of children.

Thurber James 1894-1961
My Life and Hard Times
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion
that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

Walker Alice 1944-
‘We Have a Beautiful Mother'
We have a beautiful mother
Her green lap immense
Her brown embrace eternal
Her blue body everything we know.

Mother quotes, mother sayings