Ten Quotes For Mother’s Day

Some folk baulk at the perceived commercialisation of Mother’s Day and prefer to pay tribute to their mums with a simple card.

Whether your card accompanies a present or not, it has to transmit the right message and a simple ‘Happy Mother’s Day’ smacks of laziness. 

So if you’re stuck for ideas as to what to write in your card, you can take inspiration from these famous mother-related quotes – or simply plagiarise them and tell your mum you thought of them yourself… 

1. God could not be everywhere, so he made mothers – Jewish proverb 

2. A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take – Cardinal Mermillod 

3. There was never a great man who had not a great mother – Oliver Schreiner 

4. A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie – Tenneva Jordan 

5. The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness – Honoré de Balzac 

6. An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy – Spanish Proverb 

7. The sweetest sounds to mortals given are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven – William Goldsmith Brown 

8. A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them – Victor Hugo 

9. One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters – George Herbert 

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

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