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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.
No man is responsible for his father. That is entirely his mother’s affair.
Margaret Turnbull (1890-1942) American writer, politician.
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Austin O’Malley (1858-1942) American oculist, 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 (1899-1961) American author.
What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!
Terence (c.190-159 BC) Roman dramatist.
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.
R.B. Sheridan (1751-1816) Anglo-Irish dramatist.
One father is more than a hundred school masters.
17th century English Proverb.
Leontine: An only son, sir, might expect more indulgence.
Croaker: An only father, sir, might expect more obedience.
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
Robert Burton (1577-1640) English clergyman, author.
Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned below over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said “Box about twill come to my father anon.”
John Aubrey (1626 – 1697) English antiquary.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author.
The father’s thankless position in the family is to be everybody’s breadwinner, everybody’s enemy.
August Strindberg (1849-1912) Swedish dramatist.
His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.
J.P. Marquand (1893-1960) American novelist.
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
Croesus (d.c.560 BC) Lydian king.
You are a kind of father figure to me, Dad.
Alan Coren (b.1938) British editor, humorist.
No man is responsible for his father. That is entirely his mother’s affair.
Margaret Turnbull (1890-1942) American writer, politician.
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Austin O’Malley (1858-1942) American oculist, 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 (1899-1961) American author.
What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!
Terence (c.190-159 BC) Roman dramatist.
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.
R.B. Sheridan (1751-1816) Anglo-Irish dramatist.
One father is more than a hundred school masters.
17th century English Proverb.
Leontine: An only son, sir, might expect more indulgence.
Croaker: An only father, sir, might expect more obedience.
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
Robert Burton (1577-1640) English clergyman, author.
Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned below over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said “Box about twill come to my father anon.”
John Aubrey (1626 – 1697) English antiquary.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author.
The father’s thankless position in the family is to be everybody’s breadwinner, everybody’s enemy.
August Strindberg (1849-1912) Swedish dramatist.
His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.
J.P. Marquand (1893-1960) American novelist.
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
Croesus (d.c.560 BC) Lydian king.
You are a kind of father figure to me, Dad.
Alan Coren (b.1938) British editor, humorist.
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