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.
No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.
Love for old men is sun on the snow: it dazzles more than it warms them.
Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.
When you have not what you love, you must fain love what you have.
When you have not what you love, you must fain love what you have.
Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than of war.
Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel.
All joys do not cause laughter; great pleasures are serious: pleasures of love do not make us laugh.
Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which tempests emerge when pricked.
Cease to behave as wolves and dogs that you may experience the Shepherd’s love.