What are Raphael’s Madonnas but the shadow of a mother’s love, fixed in permanent outline forever? – Thomas Wentworth Higginson Category: Mothers
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. – Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895 Category: Mothers
The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother’s Day are the good ones. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960 Category: Mothers
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him. – Henry Wheeler Shaw, a.k.a. Josh Billings Category: Advice
I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience. – Audrey Hepburn Category: Experience
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. – David Herbert Lawrence Category: Change