Mother Tongues

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or tongues:

“A frog he would a-wooing go,
Heigh ho! says Rowley,
Whether his mother would let him or no.
With a rowley, powley, gammon and spinach,
Heigh ho! says Anthony Rowley.”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. A frog he would a-wooing go (l. 1–5)

“People’s tongues are like grass, moving this way and that according to the direction of the winds.”
—Chinese proverb.