Good daughters make good mothers. [ Abigail G. Whittlesey ]

Who has daughters is always a shepherd. [ Proverb ]

Ye pretty daughters of the earth and sun. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

I will oblige my daughters to marry for love. [ Madame De Stael ]

Daughters and dead fish are no keeping wares. [ Proverb ]

Light-heeled mothers make leaden-heeled daughters. [ Proverb ]

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things. [ Samuel Madden ]

Like the wife with many daughters, the best comes last. [ Proverb ]

Marry your daughters betimes lest they marry themselves. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Two daughters and a back door, are three arrant thieves. [ Proverb ]

Words are daughters of earth, but ideas are sons of heaven. [ Dr. Samuel Johnson ]

Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous. [ Sterne ]

Those mothers are wise who seek to prepare their daughters for their probable destination. [ Solon ]

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. [ Byron ]

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of Heaven. [ Johnson ]

Mothers! endeavor to educate your daughters; tram them up to be faithful, grateful, dutiful daughters, and they will not fail to be excellent wives and mothers. [ Mrs. A. G. Whittelsey ]

Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled. [ Johnson ]

Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire. Lysander knew this was in part true, and refused the rich garments that the tyrant Dionysius proffered to his daughters, saying that they were fit only to make unhappy faces more remarkable. [ Zimmermann ]

Words, those fickle daughters of the earth, are the creation of a being that is finite, and when applied to explain that which is infinite, they fail; for that which is made surpasses not the maker; nor can that which is immeasurable by our thoughts be measured by our tongues. [ Colton ]