“Looking on the lines of my boy's face, methoughts I did recoil twenty-three years.”
William Shakespeare
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Dad Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · DAD
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.
“O, what, am I a mother to the birth of three? Ne'er mother rejoiced deliverance more.”
William Shakespeare
Proud DadFunny
“O that it could be proved that some night-tripping fairy had exchanged in cradle-clothes our children where they lay!”
William Shakespeare
Funny DadFather And Son
“Bring me a father that so loved his child, whose joy of her is overwhelm'd like mine.”
William Shakespeare
Father And DaughterLove
“My child is yet a stranger in the world.”
William Shakespeare
Protective DadFather And Daughter
“As a decrepit father takes delight to see his active child do deeds of youth.”
William Shakespeare
Proud DadAging
“This fair child of mine shall sum my count, and make my old excuse.”
William Shakespeare
LegacyChildren
“Lord worshipped might he be! what a beard hast thou got!”
William Shakespeare
Funny DadReunion
“Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty.”
William Shakespeare
AgingStrength
“What a day is this, good heavens! My son and grandson are vying with one another in the matter of valour.”
Homer
GrandfatherPride
“Now that you are yourself standing on the field of battle, you will not disgrace your ancestors.”
Homer
LegacyDad's Advice
“Remember thou, O Roman, to spare the humbled and to war down the proud.”
Virgil
Dad's AdviceJustice
“From my grandfather Verus I learned good morals and the government of my temper.”
Marcus Aurelius
GrandfatherLessons
“There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them.”
Mencius
FamilyLegacy
“He himself undertook to be his son's teacher, and taught him to read.”
Plutarch
TeachingInvolved Dad
“A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.”
The Bible (Proverbs 15:5)
Dad's AdviceWisdom
“Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.”
The Bible (Proverbs 23:25)
Proud ParentsJoy
“The father to the children shall make known thy truth.”
The Bible (Isaiah 38:19)
TeachingFaith
“I will arise and go to my father.”
The Bible (Luke 15:18)
Coming HomeForgiveness
“Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.”
The Bible (Mark 9:24)
Father's PrayerFaith
“I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.”
The Bible (2 Samuel 12:23)
Father's GriefLoss
“It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.”
The Bible (Job 1:5)
Praying FatherDevotion
“Thy children like olive plants round about thy table.”
The Bible (Psalm 128:3)
FamilyBlessing
“The glory of a man is from the honour of his father.”
The Bible (Sirach 3:11)
Honouring ParentsLegacy
“Ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.”
The Bible (Deuteronomy 32:7)
WisdomDad's Advice