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Remember that every son had a mother
whose beloved son he was,
and every woman had a mother
whose beloved son she wasn't.
(Marge Piercy (20th century), U.S. writer. "Doing It Differently," Circles on the Water (1892).)
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Who dreams of a son,
save one,
childless, having no bright
face to flatter its own,
who dreams of a son?
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Thetis.")
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Man's pity for himself, or for his son,
Always premising that said son at college
Has not contracted much more debt than knowledge.
(George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet. Don Juan.
MOS. The Poems of Byron. Paul E. More, ed. (1933) Houghton Mifflin.)
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A son is a son till he gets him a wife,
But a daughter's a daughter the rest of your life.
(Unknown.)
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Oh my son's my son till he gets him a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all her life.
(Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1826-1887), British writer, poet. "Young and Old.")
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Instruct
Your son, whirling between two wars,
In the Gemara of your gentleness,
(Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (b. 1905), U.S. poet. Father and Son (l. 26-28). . .
Contemporary American Poetry. A. Poulin, Jr., ed. (4th ed., 1985) Houghton Mifflin Company.)
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And all to leave what with his toil he won
To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son.
(John Dryden (1631-1700), British poet, dramatist, critic. Absalom and Achitophel, pt. 1, l. 169-70 (1681).
Referring to Achitophel, who in the poem represents the statesman Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury.)
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Thrust, my daughter or son, to escape, there is none, none, none,
Nor when all ponderous heaven's host of waters breaks.
(Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "If my head hurt a hair's foot.")
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The said doctor can easily practise upon a page, and, if he does well, he can use his remedies on my son.
(Catherine De' Medici (1519-1589), French queen (1547-1559); regent and advisor to her son, King Charles IX (1560-1574). As quoted in The Sayings of Queen Elizabeth, ch. 8, by Frederick Chamberlin (1923).
Said c. 1572 with reference to her youngest son, Francis, duke of Alencon and Anjou (1554-1584), who Queen Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603) was being urged to marry. Elizabeth expressed many reservations, including Alencon's youth and badly smallpox-scarred face. An English doctor asked permission to remove the scars. In the end, Elizabeth never married at all.)
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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.
(Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973), U.S. Democratic politician, president. Quoted in Fawn Brodie, Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character, ch. 25 (1983).
In reply to a reporter who had questioned him on his embracing Richard Nixon on Nixon's return from his vice presidential tour of South America, where he had stood up to being mobbed by an angry crowd in Caracas, Venezuela, May 1958. Johnson had previously referred to Nixon as "chicken shit." Reactions to the incident were not all favorable: Walter Lippmann called the tour "a diplomatic Pearl Harbor" and the Boston Globe said it was "one of the most ineptly handled episodes in this country's foreign relations.")
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