Quotes about Fathers

“Noble fathers have noble children.”

“A father is a banker provided by nature.”

“Don't make a baby if you can't be a father.”

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”

“An angry father is most cruel toward himself.”

“What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!”

“What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.”

“682. One father is more than a hundred schoole-masters.”

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

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

“An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!”

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

“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”

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

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

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”