Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

mom

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

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

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.

My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

Men are what their mothers made them.

There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.