“My tears must stop, for every drop
Hinders needle and thread.”
Thomas Hood (1799–1845) British writer
1840s, The Song of the Shirt (1843)
“Mother, may I go and maffick,
Tear around and hinder traffic?”
— Saki
"Reginald's Peace Poem"
Reginald (1904)
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“I cannot bear a mother's tears.”
Nequeam lacrimas perferre parentis.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IX, Line 289
“Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.”
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
As quoted at "Ali's Quotes" at BBC Sport : Boxing (17 January 2007) http://news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/6267397.stm
“The common growth of Mother Earth
Suffices me,—her tears, her mirth,
Her humblest mirth and tears.”
Prologue, stanza 27.
Peter Bell (1798)
“April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.”
Christopher Morley (1890–1957) American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
John Mistletoe (1931) http://books.google.com/books?id=20pJAAAAMAAJ&q=%22April+prepares+her+green+traffic+light+and+the+world+thinks+Go%22&pg=PA61#v=onepage
“Mary sheds tears because men call her "The Mother of God."”
Jack T. Chick (1924–2016) Christian comics writer
Chick tracts, " Why Is Mary Crying? http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0040/0040_01.asp" (1987)
“Children fall into a world of drugs while their mothers cry bloody tears!”
Luiz Carlos Alborghetti (1945–2009) Italian-Brazilian radio commenter, showman and political figure
Original: (pt) As crianças caem no mundo das drogas enquanto suas mães choram lágrimas de sangue!
