That it should come to this,
But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,
So excellent a king, that was to this
Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth,
Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on, and yet within a month--
Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman--
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she followed my poor father's body
Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she--
O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason
Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle,
My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, ii)
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The pretty and sweet manner of it forced
Those waters from me which I would have stopped;
But I had not so much of man in me,
And all my mother came into mine eyes
And gave me up to tears.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (King Henry at IV, vi)
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The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion
against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child
with the obligation to become the servant of a man.
George Bernard Shaw
Quotes , Source: Getting Married
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Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well/
My mother.
Anne Taylor (Mrs. Gilbert)
Quotes , Source: My Mother (st. 6)
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Happy he
With such a mother! faith in womankind
Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high
Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall,
He shall not blind his soul with clay.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Quotes , Source: Princess (canto VII, l. 308)
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They say that man is mighty,
He governs land and sea,
He wields a mighty scepter
O'er lesser powers that be;
But a mightier power and stronger
Man from his throne has hurled,
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
William Ross Wallace
Quotes , Source: What Rules the World, written about 1865-66
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