Tuesday, April 27

25 Most Funny Mother’s Day Quotes

Here are some funny quotes about motherhood which may be more your style than my previous posting on sweet Mother’s Day Quotes.  I could see a teenager giving a few of these to his poor mom after crashing the car. Or perhaps some of these would work if a friend gave it to a fellow mom, or a mother to give her grown daughter… Sometimes we moms just need the gift of laughter.

1-  “My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”

Mark Twain

2-   “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”

Oscar Wilde

3- “Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?”

Nancy Thayer

4- “A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.”

Peter De Vries

5-  “All mothers are working mothers.”

Author Unknown

6- “And remember that behind every successful woman……is a basket of dirty laundry.”

Unknown

7-  “A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done.”

Unknown

8-  “The joys of motherhood are never fully experienced until the children are in bed.”

Unknown

9- “Mothers of teenagers know why animals eat their young.”

Unknown

10-  “The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”

Calvin Trillin

11- “I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.”

George Bush

12- “Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.”

James Joyce

13- “Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.”

Lisa Alther

14- “My mother’s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.”

Buddy Hackett

15- “You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around – and why his parents will always wave back.”

William D. Tammeus

16-“If evolution really works, how come mothers have only two hands?“

Milton Berl

17- “It’s not easy being a mother, if it were easy, Father’s would do it”

Anonymous

18- ” The phrase, ‘working mothers’ is reduntant”

Jane Sellman

19-“Every Beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of it’s mother.”

Anonymous

20- “Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn’t want your mother to hear at your trial.”

Anonymous

21- “You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s. He is more particular.”

Robert Frost

22- “When I was a child, my mother said to me ‘if you become a soldier, you’ll be a general, if you become a monk, you’ll end  up the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and I wound up as Picasso.”

Pablo Picasso

23- “A mother’s love is not blind, it is just very nearsighted.”

Anonymous

24- “Why don’t you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your life to learn from your own.”

Shelagh Delaney

25- “It was when I had my first child that I understood how much my mother loved me.”

Anonymous

OK, that last one wasn’t funny, but I thought it was a good quote and it was too late to put it in my last posting on more sentimental Mother’s Day quotations. Also , I wanted to get to 25. Somehow, “25 Most Funny Mother’s Day Quotes” has more ring than “24 Most Funny Mother’s Day Quotes”.

Remember kids, mother’s day is May 9th!