Mother’s Day Quotes

Mother’s Day comes once a year. Don’t fail to greet your mother with these famous and humorous quotes that have for years, brought a smile to Mother’s all over the world.

Include these on her Mothers Day card, in a hand written note to her on in an online email or greeting card.

Make her smile with these one-liners authored by famous people, taken from religious proverbs, or created by other mothers, famous or not.

“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall. A mother’s secret love outlives them all.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” – Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.” – Jewish Proverb

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.” – Abraham Lincoln

“There is no velvet so soft as a mother’s lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps.” – Archibald Thompson

“Mother is the name for god on the lips and hearts of all children” – Brandon Lee

“If I had a flower for each time I thought of My Mother, I could walk in my garden forever.” – Unknown

“A mother understands what a child does not say.” – Jewish Proverb

“Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” – Lin Yü-tang

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” – Maya Angelou

“My mother never gave up on me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.” – Denzel Washington

“An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.” – Spanish proverb

“Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the Promised Land. She prepares a world she will not see.” – Pope Paul VI

“The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes one a mother – which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.” – Sydney Harris

For husbands, you might want to make your quotes extra special with these one-liners that will make your wife smile or fall for you all over again.

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.” – Agatha Christie

“When women go wrong, men go right after them.” – Mae West.

“Despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer the great question that has never been answered: What does a woman want?” – Sigmund Freud

“A woman’s mind is cleaner than a man’s – That’s because she changes it more often.” – Oliver Hereford

All these quotes come in handy for all occasions for your mother. Use them in the right way for the right celebration.

For Mother’s Day, use these quotes in a greeting card or as a note with your gift. This will make them smile to think how true the quote is. I guess all mothers can relate to this.


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