I don't think necessity is the mother of invention invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Womanliness means only motherhood;All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning
If you reject family - which a mother holds together - as well as the ties of Church and State, is there anything left for you?
Anthony Burgess
For ignorance is the mother of devotion, as all the world knows, and these times can amply witness.
Robert Burton
If you're a single mother with two childrenwhich is the toughest job in America, as far as I'm concernedyou're working hard to put food on your family.
George Walker Bush
A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages.
Thomas Carlyle
There are no children of whom we are fonder than those that are born of our brains, to whom we are father and mother in one.
Jean Louis Guez de Balzac
How many powerful memories are triggered by smell and taste? Your mothers old perfume, the smell your fathers breath, the taste of the soap theyd make you eat.
Derren Victor Brown
A mothers happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honor de Balzac
The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.
Francisco Jose De Goya Y Lucientes
A mothers happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honor de Balzac
A mother, who is really a mother, is never free.
Honor de Balzac
The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
William Cameron Townsend
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
Robert Frost