“My father! - methinks I see my father. In my mind's eye, Horatio.”
William Shakespeare
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Dad Quotes
Read 200 of the best dad quotes about fathers, fatherhood and a father's love, perfect for Father's Day cards and captions, from Shakespeare, the Bible and more.
“I have done nothing but in care of thee, of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter.”
William Shakespeare
Father And DaughterProtection
“I have given you here a third of mine own life, or that for which I live.”
William Shakespeare
Father And DaughterLove
“The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.”
William Shakespeare
FamilyFunny
“You had a father: let your son say so.”
William Shakespeare
LegacyFather And Son
“Thou that beget'st him that did thee beget.”
William Shakespeare
ReunionFather And Daughter
“You won it, wore it, kept it, gave it me.”
William Shakespeare
InheritanceFather And Son
“When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, and ask of thee forgiveness.”
William Shakespeare
ForgivenessFather And Daughter
“I have done what no man upon earth has ever done before - I have kissed the hand of him who has slain my son.”
Homer
Father's LoveSacrifice
“Think of your father, O Achilles, who is such even as I am, on the sad threshold of old age.”
Homer
Aging ParentsCompassion
“I am he, father, about whom you are asking.”
Homer
ReunionFather And Son
“Filial piety and fraternal submission! Are they not the root of all benevolent actions?”
Confucius
Honouring ParentsFamily
“The parents are anxious lest their children should be sick.”
Confucius
WorryParent's Love
“Of services, which is the greatest? The service of parents is the greatest.”
Mencius
Honouring ParentsDuty
“Above all things, fathers ought to make themselves a pattern to their children, by doing all things as they ought.”
Plutarch
ExampleFatherhood
“Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?”
Cicero
ChildrenJoy
“He himself, the most trustworthy of guardians, attended me to all my teachers.”
Horace
TributeEducation
“The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears.”
Francis Bacon
ParenthoodSacrifice
“Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter.”
Francis Bacon
ChildrenParenthood
“The best father that ever was.”
Michel de Montaigne
TributeBest Dad
“And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house.”
The Bible (Deuteronomy 6:7)
TeachingFaith
“My father: and he said, Here am I, my son.”
The Bible (Genesis 22:7)
Father And SonPresence
“As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them.”
The Bible (Psalm 127:4-5)
ChildrenBlessing
“If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone?”
The Bible (Luke 11:11)
ProviderFather's Love
“As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children.”
The Bible (1 Thessalonians 2:11)
EncouragementGuidance