Mother Tongues

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or tongues:

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

“Now you courtly dames and knights,
That study only strange delights,
Though you scorn the home-spun gray
And revel in your rich array;
Though your tongues dissemble deep
And can your heads from danger keep:
Yet for all your pomp and train,
Securer lives the silly swain.”
—Thomas Campion (1567–1620)