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.
I always wanted a beautiful loving wife and she always wanted to be a citizen.
We loved, sir — used to meet:
How sad and bad and mad it was —
But then, how it was sweet!
And dare love that, and say so too,
And forget the He and She.
I long to talk with some old lover's ghost,
Who died before the god of love was born.
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
For a writer, to change languages is to write a love letter with a dictionary.
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.