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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON FATHERS
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
Joseph Addison (1672-1719, British essayist, poet, statesman)
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Enid Bagnold (1889-1981, British novelist, playwright)
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
James Baldwin (1924-1987, American author)
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680, British poet, satirist)
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680, British poet, satirist)
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694-1773, British statesman, author)
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
Confucius (BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher)
If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
Bill Cosby (1937-, American actor, comedian, producer)
You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.
Erika Cosby
Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.
Margaret Courtney
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.
Mario Cuomo
What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.
Mary Mapes Dodge
Noble fathers have noble children.
Euripides (BC 480-406, Greek tragic poet)
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Euripides (BC 480-406, Greek tragic poet)
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939, Austrian physician, founder of Psychoanalysis)
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961, American writer)
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961, American writer)
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
George Herbert (1593-1632, British metaphysical poet)
There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885, French poet, dramatist, novelist)
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963, British author)
His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.
John Marquand (1893-1960, American author)
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-, Colombian writer)
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-, Colombian writer)
The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat -- like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle it took such months to get.
Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978, American poet, author)
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900, German philosopher)
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Anais Nin (1914-1977, French-born American novelist, dancer)
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Austin O'Malley
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
William Penn (1644-1718, British religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania)
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
William Penn (1644-1718, British religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania)
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744, British poet, critic, translator)
A father is a banker provided by nature.
French Proverb (Sayings of French origin)
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
Helen Rowland (1875-1950, American journalist)
The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Anne Sexton (1928-1974, American poet)
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816, Anglo-Irish dramatist)
That is the thankless position of the father in the family -- the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
August J. Strindberg (1849-1912, Swedish dramatist, novelist, poet)
An angry father is most cruel toward himself.
Publilius Syrus (85 BC- 43BC, Roman writer)
What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!
Terence (Roman writer of comedies)
Fathers do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Ephesians 6:4
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
Author Unknown
One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.
Author Unknown
The affection of a father and a son are different: The father loves the person of the son, and the son loves the memory of his father.
Author Unknown
The best gift a father can give to his son is the gift of himself - his time. For material things mean little, if there is not someone to share them with.
Author Unknown
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 (1819-1901, British queen)
It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
Alice Walker (1944-, American author, critic)
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
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