Dad Quotes

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

William Shakespeare

“My mother tells me I am son to Ulysses, but it is a wise child that knows his own father.”

Homer

“That it may be said of him as he comes from battle, 'The son is far better than the father.'”

Homer

“I am no god. I am your father, on whose account you grieve and suffer so much.”

Homer

“There are few sons who are as good men as their fathers; they are generally worse, not better.”

Homer

“Come then, dear father, mount upon my shoulders; I will carry you, and the burden will not weigh on me.”

Virgil

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”

George Herbert

“From my father: mildness of temper, and unchangeable resolution in the things which he had determined after due deliberation.”

Marcus Aurelius

“From the reputation and remembrance of my father, modesty and a manly character.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Do you not see how fathers show their love in one way, and mothers in another? The father orders his children to be aroused from sleep in order that they may start early upon their pursuits.”

Seneca

“While a man's father is alive, look at the bent of his will; when his father is dead, look at his conduct.”

Confucius

“The years of parents may by no means not be kept in the memory, as an occasion at once for joy and for fear.”

Confucius

“The filial piety of now-a-days means the support of one's parents. But dogs and horses likewise are able to do something in the way of support; without reverence, what is there to distinguish the one support given from the other?”

Confucius

“In serving his parents, a son may remonstrate with them, but gently.”

Confucius

“The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.”

Mencius

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

Euripides

“Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.”

The Bible (Proverbs 23:22)

“The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.”

The Bible (Proverbs 23:24)

“Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.”

The Bible (Proverbs 4:1)

“For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.”

The Bible (Proverbs 3:12)

“But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.”

The Bible (Luke 15:20)

“Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.”

The Bible (Psalm 103:13)

“And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers.”

The Bible (Malachi 4:6)

“Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.”

The Bible (Colossians 3:21)

“Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land.”

The Bible (Exodus 20:12)