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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.

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Most quoted on mother's day:

Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string?
I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Anatole France The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)

Oh love entertained in stars and doves,/how like a joyous spray you cross my soul!

Julia de Burgos Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)

For, you see, each day I love you more,
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

Rosemonde Gérard

To love one who loves you, to admire one who admires you, to be the idol of your idol! ... It is too much, it exceeds human happiness, it is stealing fire from heaven!

Delphine de Girardin La Croix de Berny (1855)

And in that first flame
Is all the nectar of the kiss.

Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found.

John Forbes Nash Jr.

I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, "I do not love thee."

Martial

My merry, merry, merry roundelay
Concludes with Cupid’s curse:
They that do change old love for new,
Pray gods, they change for worse!

George Peele

We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.

Julian of Norwich

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it. Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Robert Louis Stevenson Aes Triplex (1878)

Divine the Powers that on this trio wait.
Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate.
Love, Work, and Faith — these three alone are great.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox New Thought Pastels (1913)

Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer or inner compulsion. Right thinking can come about only when the mind is not enslaved by tradition and memory.

Jiddu Krishnamurti Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning (1963)

She said, why don't we both just sleep on it tonight
And I believe, in the morning you'll begin to see the light...

Paul Simon

I observed, "Love is the fulfilling of the law, the end of the commandment." It is not only "the first and great" command, but all the commandments in one. "Whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, if there be any virtue, if there be any praise," they are all comprised in this one word, love.

John Wesley

There are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light,
And every kind of love makes a glory in the night.
There is love that stirs the heart, and love that gives it rest,
But the love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.

Henry van Dyke

Freud's prescription for personal happiness as consisting of work and love must be taken with the proviso that the work has to be loved, and the love has to be worked at.

Sydney J. Harris Pieces of Eight (1982)

Love is a feeling and its expression is an art.

Suman Pokhrel

In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

Albert Camus The Plague (1947)

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