“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 the old man had learned in seven years.” - Mark Twain

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” - English Proverb

“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.” - Charles Wadsworth

“That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.” - J. August Strindberg

“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 Crosby

“Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!” - L. M. Child

“It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.” - Jean de La Fontaine

“You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.” - Erika Cosby

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

“It is much easier to become a father than to be one.” - Kent Nerburn

“A wise son makes a glad father.” -  Proverbs 10:1

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." - Author Unknown

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

“I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.” - Mario Cuomo

“You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love.  You have to deserve your father’s.” - Robert Frost

“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.” - M. Dietrich

Last modified: 05/02/08