| "Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it . I would have made a terrible mother." »Katharine Hepburn |
| "A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour." »P. G. Wodehouse |
| "A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two." »Richard Kehl |
| "There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong-to belong to my mother. And in return-I wanted my mother to belong to me." »Gloria Vanderbilt |
| "Getting caught is the mother of invention." »Robert Byrne |
| "Invention is the mother of necessity." »Thorstein Veblen |
| "Necessity is the mother of invention." »Anonymous |
| "The mob is the mother of tyrants." »Laertius Diogenes |
| "Leisure is the mother of philosophy." »Thomas Hobbes |
| "My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one." »Julius Henry Marx |
| "Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too." »B. B. King |
| "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." »Mae West |
| "Truth is the mother of hatred." »Ausonius |
| "Ignorance is the mother of fear." »Harry Homes |
| "Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother." »Moorish Proverb |
| "My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping." »Rita Rudner |
| "Diligence is the mother of good luck." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "Necessity is the mother of taking chances." »Mark Twain |
| "He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father." »Saint Augustine |
| "I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother." »W. C. Fields |
| "Diligence is the mother of good fortune." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it." »Mark Twain |
| "The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class." »Jack London |
| "An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests." »Danish proverb |
| "mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children." »William Makepeace Thackeray |
| "Tommy If I wanted a kiss I'd call your mother." »Tommy Boy |
| "Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law." »Japanese Proverb |
| "Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law." »Hubert Humphrey |
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