“Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.”
William Shakespeare
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Father's Day Quotes
201 FAMOUS QUOTES · FATHER'S DAY
Father's Day Quotes
Read the best Father's Day quotes, wishes and messages for cards and captions, with classic lines about fathers and heartfelt wishes to make Dad smile.
“Alack, what heinous sin is it in me to be ashamed to be my father's child!”
William Shakespeare
Complicated DadsHonesty
“Be thou blest, Bertram, and succeed thy father in manners, as in shape!”
William Shakespeare
Like Father Like SonBlessing
“Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see: she has deceived her father, and may thee.”
William Shakespeare
Protective DadFather And Daughter
“Father, I have always heard of your great renown as a warrior and a counsellor.”
Homer
AdmirationFather And Son
“O my son, seek out a kingdom equal to and worthy of thyself, for Macedonia is too little for thee.”
Philip of Macedon
Proud DadBig Dreams
“Polemarchus is the heir of my argument.”
Plato
Father And SonFunny
“I know it was hard, my children; but one little word makes all those toils as nought. Love had ye from me, as from none beside.”
Sophocles
Father's LoveSacrifice
“God has a father's mind toward good men, and cherishes for them a manly love.”
Seneca
FaithFather's Love
“Let a father conceive the highest hopes of his son from the moment of his birth.”
Quintilian
HopesNew Dad
“If you do not learn the Odes, you will not be fit to converse with.”
Confucius
Dad's AdviceLearning
“The ancients exchanged sons, and one taught the son of another. Between father and son, there should be no reproving admonitions to what is good.”
Mencius
TeachingFather And Son
“Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents.”
Thomas Jefferson
Dad's AdviceRespect
“You come into life with advantages which will disgrace you if your success is mediocre.”
John Adams
High ExpectationsDad's Advice
“Dear Son: I have ever had pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of my ancestors.”
Benjamin Franklin
Family HistoryLegacy
“If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run, yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, and - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!”
Rudyard Kipling
Dad's AdviceGrowing Up
“My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy - a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak.”
Mark Twain
Complicated DadsFunny
“Well, aged parent, how are you?”
Charles Dickens
Caring For DadFunny
“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character.”
Jane Austen
FunnyVain Dad
“It's a puzzling world.”
George Eliot
Dad SayingsFunny
“He was a man of a somewhat antique strain: with a blended sternness and softness.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
TributeCharacter
“Don't give up all your romance, Anne. A little of it is a good thing.”
L. M. Montgomery
Father FigureAdvice
“Our father rode again his ride on Memphremagog's wooded side.”
John Greenleaf Whittier
Dad's StoriesMemories
“Children are poor men's riches.”
Thomas Fuller
ChildrenWealth
“Children's children are the crown of old men.”
The Bible (Proverbs 17:6)
GrandfathersLegacy