Samuel Johnson Quotes About Mothers

• High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mother, Children, Sacrifice

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.239

• You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

  Samuel Johnson

  Daughter, Mother, Done

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.5

• Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.

  Samuel Johnson

  Daughter, Mother, May

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam”, p.292

• If the guardian or the mother
  Tell the woes of willful waste,
  Scorn their counsel and their pother,
  You can hang or drown at last.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mother, Woe, Lasts

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.71, Univ of California Press

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