To Mother

Mother is a verb, not a noun. - Shonda Rhimes

Gin was mother's milk to her. - George Bernard Shaw

As is the mother, so is her daughter. - Bible

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. - Benjamin Disraeli

Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention. - Arianna Huffington

A child's first teacher is its mother. - Peng Liyuan

You trust your mother, but you cut the cards. - Unknown

The phrase working mother is redundant. - Jane Sellman

Necessity, who is the mother of our invention. - Plato

The best place to cry is on a mother's arms. - Jodi Picoult

This is really a lovely horse. I once rode her mother. - Ted Walsh

Mother's Life: One darned stocking after the other - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, I am my mother after all. - Unknown

Nothing is really lost until your Mom can't find it. - Unknown

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. - Robert A. Heinlein

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. - George Eliot

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. - Aeschylus

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. - Hubert Humphrey

A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor. - August Bier

I'm so ugly my mother had morning sickness - AFTER I was born. - Rodney Dangerfield

If a deaf person swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap? - George Carlin

My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was. - Lisa Leslie

Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are. - Dorothy C Fisher

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother. - George Herbert

It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it. - Dorothy

Be kind to your mother-in-law but pay for her board at some good hotel. - Josh Billings

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. - Beverly Jones

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

The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology. - Ray Romano

My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle. - Phyllis Diller

The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones. - Mignon McLaughlin

I just got back from a pleasure trip. I took my mother-in-law to the airport. - Henny Youngman

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. - Marion C. Garretty

Spoiled Rotten: What the kids become after as little as 15 minutes with Grandma - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Oh, when I was a kid, I was ugly. When I was born, the doctor smacked my mother. - Rodney Dangerfield

My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed - I never knew they worked. - Les Dawson

My mother is no spring chicken although she has got as many chemicals in her as one. - Edna Everage

My nickname is 'Mom', but my full name is 'Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom.' - Unknown

On Valentine's Day, I wired flowers for my mother-in-law, but she found the fuse. - Milton Berle

My mom was fair. You never knew whether she was going to swing with her right or her left. - Herb Caen

Because: Mom's reason for having kids do things which can't be explained logically - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument. - C.S. Forester

My mom always said, "Don't say if I make it", say, "When I make it!" - Mariah Carey

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother. - Claudette Colbert

Modern Pioneer: The mother who manages to get through a rainy Saturday with the T.V. not working - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

There's a reason some people think they can achieve anything. They listened to their mother. - Unknown

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day. - Jay Leno

By the time a woman realizes her mother was right, she has a daughter who thinks she's wrong. - Unknown

I married your mother because I wanted children.
Imagine my disappointment when you came along. - Groucho Marx

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

Drunk Man: "I can't bear fools."
Dorothy Parker: "Apparently your mother could." - Dorothy Parker

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it. - W D Howells

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. - Robert Frost

Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. - Ken Dodd

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter? - Rose Kennedy

There has never been, nor will there ever be, anything quite so special as the love between a mother and a son. - Unknown

You know you're a mom when you go to the store for yourself and come out with a bag of things for your kids. - Unknown

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. - Nora Ephron

There is an endearing tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart. - Washington Irving

My mother reads the obituary page every day, but she could never understand how people always die in alphabetical order. - Frank Carson

As a family we couldn't decide whether to have Grandma buried or cremated, so in the end we decided to let her live. - Gary Delaney

So long as the mother, ignorance, lives, it is not safe for science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden cause of things. - Johannes Kepler

Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed. - Linda Wooten

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow. - Maya Angelou

Makeup: Lipstick, eyeliner, blush which ironically makes Mom look better while making her young daughter look 'like a tramp' - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language?
One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap. - Red Skelton

Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark ... to have been loved so deeply ... will give us some protection forever. - J K Rowling

Secretary: "It must be hard to lose your mother-in-law." WC Fields: "Yes it is, very hard. It's almost impossible." - WC Fields

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. - Sophia Loren

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. - Mark Twain