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A father is a banker provided by nature.

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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

Enid Bagnold

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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

Gabriel García Márquez

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An angry father is most cruel toward himself.

Publilius Syrus

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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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.

Earl of Chesterfield

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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!

Lydia Child

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By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder -- infinitely prouder -- to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, Our Father Who Art in Heaven.

Douglas MacArthur

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Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

Father
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Fathers do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. -- Ephesians 6:4

Father
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Oscar Wilde

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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

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13

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Sigmund Freud

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14

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

Anaïs Nin

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15

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

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It is a wise father that knows his own child.

William Shakespeare

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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

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18

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

William Penn

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My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

George Bernard Shaw

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20

Noble fathers have noble children.

Euripides

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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 the United Kingdom

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One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

George Herbert

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23

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.

Father
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Joseph Addison

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That is the thankless position of the father in the family -- the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

August Strindberg

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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

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27

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

Confucius

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The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Bertrand Russell

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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 I it took such months to get.

Phyllis McGinley

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30

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

Austin O'Malley

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There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Victor Hugo

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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.

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To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Euripides

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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

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What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

Terence

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When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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A father is a banker provided by nature.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

An angry father is most cruel toward himself.

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

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.

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!

Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

Fathers do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. -- Ephesians 6:4

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

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.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

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.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

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.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

Noble fathers have noble children.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

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.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

That is the thankless position of the father in the family -- the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

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.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

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.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

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.

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.