Sophocles Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

  Sophocles

  Mom, Mother, Children

  "Phædra". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 685,

• It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.

  Sophocles

  Mother, Dream, May

  Jocasta to Oedipus, her son and husband, before they both discover the truth of the prophecy. Oedipus Tyrannus, 979-83 (translated by H Lloyd-Jones,1994).

• Laziness is the mother of all evils.

  Sophocles

  Mother, Work, Evil

• I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no
  other man than that I am.

  Sophocles

  Mother, Children, Fall

  Sophocles (1951). “The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”

• Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.

  Sophocles

  Mother, Men, Evil

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles”

• Kids are anchors of mothers' life

  Sophocles

  Mother, Kids, Anchors

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