Subject: Family » Mothers

Do me a favor; when you get home, throw your mother a bone.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Her mother was a cultivated women… she was born in a greenhouse.

(1918 – 2002) Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet & playwright

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served nothing but leftovers… the original meal was never found.

(1959 – ) British/American actress, comedian, director, author & screenwriter

I’ve been like a mother to that girl. I’ve locked her in her room, told her she was fat, and once I even left her in a store!

(1958 – ) American actress & singer

When my old man wanted sex… my mother would show him a picture of me.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Even when I go out with my mom I don't look at other moms.

(1949 – 2016) American comedian & television actor

I get on very well with my parents, give or take my mother.

English comedian & actor

Four words every mom dreads hearing: “You're under arrest, mom.”


Children aren’t happy with nothing to ignore, And that’s what parents were created for.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

When I was a boy, my mother wore a mood ring; when she was in a good mood it turned blue… in a bad mood, it left a big red mark on my forehead.

comedian

As my mother used to say, ‘You’ll get unconditional love from me when you’ve earned it.

(1954 – ) American stand-up comedian

From time to time, my mother puts on her wedding dress; not because she’s sentimental, she just gets really far behind on her laundry.

comedian

Mother, there are terrorist cells that are more nurturing than you are.

(1958 – ) American actor & producer

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

(1950 – ) American cartoonist Cathy

There are three reasons for breastfeeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can’t get it.

(1935 – ) London-born American author & food commentator

It’s really hard being a single mom nowadays – which is why I don’t have children.

American-Mexican stand-up comedian & actress

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each.



I’ve been here eight months and have been in two earthquakes, a race riot, floods and fires, and I left New York because I couldn’t handle my mother.

comedian & television writer