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"My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn."
- Fathers Day Quotes Louis Adamic"

'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness."
- Fathers Day Quotes Aeschylus

"Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are."
- Fathers Day Quotes Louisa May Alcott

"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well."
- Fathers Day Quotes Alexander the Great

"Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did."
- Fathers Day Quotes Anonymous

"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again."
- Fathers Day Quotes Enid Bagnold

"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."
- Fathers Day Quotes Bill Cosby

"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."
- Fathers Day Quotes Bill Cosby

"Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, Who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, And joined in thy innocent glee."
- Fathers Day Quotes Margaret Courtney

"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week."
- Fathers Day Quotes Mario Cuomo

"Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name."
- Fathers Day Quotes William Wordsworth

"A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma."
- Fathers Day Quotes Marlene Dietrich

"Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes."
- Fathers Day Quotes Euripedes

"Fifth Commandment: Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee."
- Fathers Day Quotes Exodus 20:12

"My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.' "
- Fathers Day Quotes Jim Fox

"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."
- Fathers Day Quotes Robert Frost

"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular."
- Fathers Day Quotes Robert Frost

"A father is a banker provided by nature."
- Fathers Day Quotes French Proverb

"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
- Fathers Day Quotes Sigmund Freud

"Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad."
- Fathers Day Quotes Anne Geddes

"Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers - and fathering is a very important stage in their development."
- Fathers Day Quotes David M. Gottesman

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
- Fathers Day Quotes Jewish Proverb

"When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, 'She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge.'"
- Fathers Day Quotes Helen Hayes

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."
- Fathers Day Quotes George Herbert

"If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time."
- Fathers Day Quotes Russell Hoban

"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."
- Fathers Day Quotes Homer

"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life."
- Fathers Day Quotes Elbert Hubbard

"My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it."
- Fathers Day Quotes Natasha Josefowitz

"If a son is uneducated, his dad is to blame."
- Fathers Day Quotes Chinese Proverb

"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."
- Fathers Day Quotes Clarence Budington Kelland

"My father told me that all businessmen were sons-of-bitches, but I never believed him until now."
- Fathers Day Quotes John F. Kennedy

"My father said, 'Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?'""
- Fathers Day Quotes Dexter Scott King

"Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown."
- Fathers Day Quotes Author Unknown

"When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you."
- Fathers Day Quotes Jerry Lewis"

"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."
- Fathers Day Quotes Abraham Lincoln

"Honor thy father and thy mother."
- Fathers Day Quotes Matthew 19:19

"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."
- Fathers Day Quotes Phyllis McGinley

"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it."
- Fathers Day Quotes Abraham Lincoln

"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother."
- Fathers Day Quotes Friedrich Nietzche

"Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards."
- Fathers Day Quotes Robert Orben

"People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad."
- Fathers Day Quotes Carroll O'Connor

"A wise son maketh a glad father."
- Fathers Day Quotes Proverbs 10:1

"Never raise your hand to your kids.  It leaves your groin unprotected."
- Fathers Day Quotes Red Buttons

"Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance."
- Fathers Day Quotes Ruth E. Renkel

"Old as she was, she still missed her daddy."
- Fathers Day Quotes Gloria Naylor

"That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all."
- Fathers Day Quotes J. August Strindberg

"An angry father is most cruel towards himself."
- Fathers Day Quotes Publilius Syrus

"I just owe almost everything to my father [and] it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election."
- Fathers Day Quotes Margaret Thatcher

"A man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and the two become one flesh."
- Fathers Day Quotes The Holy Bible

"It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home—it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love."
- Fathers Day Quotes Margaret Truman

"A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season".
- Fathers Day Quotes Unknown

"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty."
- Fathers Day Quotes Unknown

"Small boy's definition of Father's Day: It's just like Mother's Day only you don't spend so much."
- Fathers Day Quotes Unknown

"A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be."
- Fathers Day Quotes Unknown

"It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't."
- Fathers Day Quotes Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."
- Fathers Day Quotes Charles Wadsworth

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