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"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
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"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
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"From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful." »R. D. Laing
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"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
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"The mob is the mother of tyrants." »Laertius Diogenes
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"He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father." »Saint Augustine
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"Invention is the mother of necessity." »Thorstein Veblen
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"My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one." »Groucho Marx
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"Getting caught is the mother of invention." »Robert Byrne
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"Ignorance is the mother of admiration." »George Chapman
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"A mother understands what a child does not say." »Jewish Proverb
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"Leisure is the mother of philosophy." »Thomas Hobbes
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"Truth is the mother of hatred." »Ausonius
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"Necessity, who is the mother of invention." »Plato, The Republic
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"Necessity is the mother of invention." »Anonymous
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"Ignorance is the mother of fear." »Harry Homes
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"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." »Mae West
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"Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too." »B. B. King
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"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." »Abraham Lincoln
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"My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one." »Julius Henry Marx
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"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat." »Robert Frost
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"The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class." »Jack London
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"Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends." »H. L. Mencken
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"Diligence is the mother of good fortune." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother." »Moorish Proverb
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"I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name." »Paula Poundstone
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"The greater love is a mother's then comes a dog's then a sweetheart's." »Polish Proverb
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"Most turkeys taste better the day after my mother's tasted better the day before." »Rita Rudner
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"I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother." »W. C. Fields
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"My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping." »Rita Rudner
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