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Samuel Butler on Mother's Day

1612–1680 England

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Love is a boy by poets styl'd;
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

Part II (1664)

Love in your hearts as idly burns
As fire in antique Roman urns.

Part II (1664)

What mad lover ever dy'd,
To gain a soft and gentle bride?
Or for a lady tender-hearted,
In purling streams or hemp departed?

Hudibras, Part III (1678)

He that would win his dame must do
As love does when he draws his bow;
With one hand thrust the lady from,
And with the other pull her home.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samuel Butler (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.