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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg on men

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau on men

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
Walter Lippmann on men

The most positive men are the most credulous.
Alexander Pope on men

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
George Washington on mom

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
Jessica Lange on mom

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark Twain on mom

Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on mom

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso on mom

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle on mom

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
Erich Fromm on mom

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
Billy Graham on mom

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.
Lauryn Hill on mom

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Erma Bombeck on mom

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
Ellen DeGeneres on mom

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
E. M. Forster on mom

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Sophia Loren on mom

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
Alice Walker on mom

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
Ambrose Bierce on mom

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
Erma Bombeck on mom