Thrice venomed is the wound when 'tis Love's hand
Inflicts the blow.
Mother's Day Quotes
Most of what you will see here is about love in general, because the Mother page itself is short. The page is assembled from the pages on mothers, love and gratitude.
If you want quotes that are actually about mothers, the Mother page has fewer but more precise ones. For anything you plan to print or say out loud, check the source line and the label next to it.
Love is that liquor sweet and most divine,
Which my God feels as blood, but I as wine.
Only God, my dear,
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.
Exuberance to me early meant ecstacy of love, the poetic principle of life.
Friendship, 'tis said, is love without his wings,
And friendship, sir, is sweet enough for me.
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
We are told “God so loved the world” that he is going to damn almost everybody.
There is not so much virginity in the world that one can afford not to love when one finds it.