Mother Tongue

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or tongue:

“The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Every old woman with a wrinkled face, a furr’d brow, a hairy lip, a gobber tooth, a squint eye, a squeaking voice, or a scolding tongue ... a dog or cat by her side, is not only suspected but pronounced for a witch.”
—John Gaule (fl. 1640–1660)