Our most cruel enemies are our nearest in blood!... Kings have neither brothers, nor sons, nor mothers.
Honor de Balzac
A widow has two tasks before her, whose duties clash: she is a mother, and yet she must exercise parental authority.
Honor de Balzac
Whatever good deeds have been done by me, those the people accept and those they follow. Therefore they have progressed and will continue to progress by being respectful to mother and father, respectful to elders, by courtesy to the aged and proper behavior towards Brahmans and ascetics, towards the poor and distressed, and even towards servants and employees.
Ashoka the Great
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
Sigmund Freud
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Sigmund Freud
You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and never will die. You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.
Richard Bach
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Miguel de Cervantes
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Miguel de Cervantes
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Miguel de Cervantes
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
Peter De Vries
So the Church imitates the Lords mother - not in the bodily sense, which it could not do - but in mind it is both mother and virgin. In no way, then, did Christ deprive his mother of her virginity by being.
St. Augustine of Hippo
When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.
David Antin
My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.
Michael Jackson
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
Sophocles
Water is the mother of the vine, The nurse and fountain of fecundity, The adorner and refresher of the world.
Charlas Mckay