Love taught him shame, and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
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.
In her first passion woman loves her lover,
In all the others all she loves is love.
Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.
Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source
Of human offspring.
The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.