An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
Benjamin DisraeliEnthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFor those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
SophoclesI blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.
Joan RiversHow simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
Alice Walker