Mother Quotes & Sayings
These mother quotes, sayings and quotations are from our famous quotes collection. Inspirational quotes, sayings and quotations.His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. - Lois McMaster Bujold
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. - Khalil Gibran
Life was a lot simpler when what we honoured was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. - Robert Orben
Sweater: Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce
The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after. - Tallulah Bankhead
Getting caught is the mother of invention. - Robert E. Byrne
When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that. - Diane Arbus
A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom. - Jean Paul Richter