The Lighter Side
Mums definitely have their humorous moments and these funny quotes are testimony to the laughs that mothers often enjoy (and sometimes endure). This Mother's Day, share these funny quotes with your mum and enjoy a moment of shared love and laughter.
"Mothers of teenagers know why animals eat their young." - Author Unknown
"Mothers are all slightly insane." - J.D. Salinger
"I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them." - Phyllis Diller
"It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him." - Helen Rowland
"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found." - Calvin Trillin
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." - Oscar Wilde
"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
"There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it." - Chinese Proverb
"You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back." - William D. Tammeus
"My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it." - Buddy Hackett
"Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease." – Lisa Alther
"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it." - Mark Twain
"A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car for ever after." - Peter De Vries
"It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge." - Phyllis Diller
"Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life." - Author Unknown
"To the world you might just be one person, but to one person you might be the world." - Author Unknown
Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that. - Golda Meir
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, "Women and Beauty"
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. - Aristotle
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. - Irish Proverb
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
Jewish Proverb
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. - Haim Ginott
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