“I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined, or hard to check, as a socially ambitious mother.”
Daily Telegram #1808, Mr. Rogers' Heart Goes Out To Our Envoy To St. James's (10 May 1932) in The New York Times, 11 May 1932 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0A15FA3E5A13738DDDA80994DD405B828FF1D3
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American humorist and entertainer 1879–1935Related quotes

The Times, 10 December 1934.
Explaining his decision to personally begin the dismantling of the old Waterloo Bridge; the government had refused to allow the council to build a replacement so Morrison and his allies forced the issue by breaking up the existing bridge.
“I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.”
Source: Filth

“Then I think you have a choice -- please your mother or face criminal charges.”
8 1/2 Women

“I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.”
The Betrothed, Chap. xxviii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Brother, even by my mother's dust, I charge you,
Do not betray me to your mirth or hate.”
Act I, sc. iii.
Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-33?)