Quotes with mother-wit

Quotes 301 till 320 of 493.

  • Samuel Butler Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Jane Welsh Carlyle Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
    Jane Welsh Carlyle
    Scottish writer (1801 - 1866)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • George Herbert Night is the mother of counsels.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Bobbi Kristina Brown No one knows what an amazing spirit she was. She wasn't only a mother; she was a best friend.
    Bobbi Kristina Brown
    American reality television personality, media personality, and singer (1993 - 2015)
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  • Margaret Sanger No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
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  • B. B. King Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Camille Paglia Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Sir Richard Steele Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Beverly Jones Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.
    Beverly Jones
     
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  • Aeschylus Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Bernard Lagat Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.
    Bernard Lagat
     
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  • Lin Yü-tang Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
    Lin Yü-tang
    Chinese writer (1895 - 1976)
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  • Bobbi Kristina Brown Of course we had our arguments; we had everything, but at the end of the day, that was still my mother, my confidante - my everything.
    Bobbi Kristina Brown
    American reality television personality, media personality, and singer (1993 - 2015)
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  • Alexander Pope Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Camille Paglia Oil painting and color, said Michelangelo, are for women and the lazy. His sharp-edged Apollonian style is the only way to beat back mother nature.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Calamity Jane On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.
    Calamity Jane
    American frontierswoman (1852 - 1903)
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  • Mother Teresa One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Mother Teresa One must really have suffered oneself to help others.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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