A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

You have doubtless heard, my dear mother, the misfortune of Madame de Chartres, whose child is born dead. But I would rather have even…

— Marie Antoinette

A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he…

— Barbara Cartland

What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him…

— Nancy Reagan

Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.

— Jeremy Taylor

When a man is small and become a young man, his Mother owns him, after he becomes a man and a woman comes into…

— Glen Rambharack

“I think, therefore I am, said a man whose mother quickly hit him on the head, saying, I hit my son on the head,…

— Russell Edson

The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.

— Anonymous

I think there's just incredible amounts of labeling generally and as woman, as a man, as a gay man, as a mother, as a…

— Jonathan Bailey

My father when walked into a room, you could tell that everybody loved him. They really did. He was quite a man. My mother…

— Don Rickles

Shut up, you'll never be the man your mother is

— Anonymous

“Never chase a man, her mother had told her. No good will come of it.”

— Maggie O'Farrell

Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man--his own mother, and the mother…

— Octave Feuillet

My father was a very clever man. My mother was not clever. An extraordinary woman, but simple.

— Julian Bream

“Being a father describes a man, being a mother defines a woman.”

— Tawny O'Dell

This is the man my mother lived for. My career means something now because I've worked with Robert Redford.

— Jennifer Lopez