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It is a wise father that knows
his own child.
~ William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
The Merchant of Venice
One father is more than a hundred
schoolmasters.
~ 17th century English proverb
Any man can be a father. It
takes someone special to be a dad.
~ Anonymous
A wise son maketh a glad father.
~ Proverbs 10:1
None of you can ever be proud
enough of being the child of such a Father who has not his equal
in this world - so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you,
to follow in his footsteps and don't
be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of
you, I am sure, will ever be.
Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have
acquired a great deal.
~ Queen Victoria of England (speaking to her children about her
husband, Albert)
When I was a boy of 14, my
father was so ignorant I could hardly stand
to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
~ Mark Twain
Small boy’s definition
of Father’s Day: It’s just like Mother’s
Day only you don’t spend so much.
~ Unknown
Fifth Commandment: Honor
thy father and thy mother:
that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God
giveth thee.
~ Exodus 20:12
The father of a daughter is
nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony
face to his sons, berates them,
shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into
the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm
over his shoulder and says, “Daddy, I need to ask you something,”
he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
~ Garrison Keillor, The Book of Guys, introduction (1993)
A new father quickly learns
that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely
the times when he’s in there, as if he needed company. The
only way for this
father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas
station.
~ Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, ch. 3 (1986).
Fatherhood is pretending the
present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
~ Bill Cosby
Honor thy father and thy mother
~ Matthew 19:19
A father is a guy who has snapshots
in his
wallet where his money used to be.
~ Author Unknown
My father did enough of it
in his lifetime to answer for both of us.
~ Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924), U.S. president
My father always wanted to
be the corpse at every funeral,
the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.
~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth, On President Theodore Roosevelt
One man with courage makes
a majority.
~ Andrew Jackson (1832)
By the time a man realizes
that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks
he's wrong.
~ Charles Wadsworth
Honour thy father and mother;
which is
the first commandment with promise.
~ Ephesians 6:2
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