Quotes with mother-wit

Quotes 101 till 120 of 493.

  • Edmund Burke Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Hosea Ballou Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Wendell L. Willkie Education is the mother of leadership.
    Wendell L. Willkie
    American lawyer, politician and corporate executive (1892 - 1944)
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  • John Bright England is the mother of Parliaments.
    Source: Speech at Birmingham (1865)
    John Bright
    British politician (1811 - 1889)
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  • J. Bright England, the mother of Parliaments.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bruce Chatwin Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land.
    Source: The Songlines p. 270
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Carrie-Anne Moss Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.
    Carrie-Anne Moss
    Canadian actress (1967 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Every male copulating with a woman returns to his origins in the womb. Goethe postponed intercourse until he was forty. This must be related to his self-imposed distance from his forceful mother. To refuse phallic penetration is to refuse surrender to the female matrix.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Barbara Cartland Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that nice girls don't. He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue - but only in a certain section of society.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Camille Paglia Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Mother Teresa Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • O. Sitwell Evil and ugliness are the same thing, and dullness is the mother of both.
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  • Bill Dedman Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He is Slammin' Sammy, a fairy-tale figure rising from poverty in the Dominican Republic to the 55th floor above Chicago's Lake Shore Drive.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Fear is the mother of morality.
    Original: Die Furcht ist die Mutter der Moral.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • William Shakespeare For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Miguel de Unamuno For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth
    Miguel de Unamuno
    Spanish philosophical writer (1864 - 1936)
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  • James Boswell For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
    James Boswell
    Scottish biographer and diarist (1740 - 1795)
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  • Eileen Stukane For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much - anticipated vacation.
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