You know when you're young, you think your dad's Superman. Then you grow
up and you realize he's just a regular guy who wears a cape.
-Dave
Atell
All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and
fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their
real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye.-
-Martin
Atwood
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually
has a son who thinks he's wrong.-
-Charles Wadsworth
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.-
-Robert Burton
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its
grandfathers.-
-Lewis Mumford
Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother, she looks like my
father.-
-Tony Randall
Father's Day is like Mother's Day, except the gift is cheaper.-
-Gerald
F. Lieberman
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love the most is
soap-on-a-rope.-
-Bill Cosby
Fathers should neither be seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis
for family life.-
-Oscar Wilde
For years I thought my father was a hunchback. Turns out he didn't know
suspenders were adjustable.-
-Bill Kelly
Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why
you should.-
-Unattributed
Hello. My name is Oedipus. You are my father. Prepare to die.-
-Nancy
Lebovitz
I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do
things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? “Margo, don't be a
sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.”-
-Margo Kaufman
I was kidnapped and they sent back a piece of my finger to my father. He
said he wanted more proof.-
-Rodney Dangerfield
If a child looks like his father, that's heredity. If he looks like a
neighbor, that's environment.-
-Unattributed
If I were a father and had a daughter who was seduced, I would not
despair over her. But if I had a son who became a journalist and
continued to remain one for five years, I would give him up.-
-Soren
Kierkegaard
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.-
-Jean
de la Fontaine
Many of you know that I got my name, Barack, from my father. What you
may not know is Barack is actually Swahili for “That One.” And I got my
middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for
president.-
-Barack Obama
Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers
expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of
government, they assume that its might makes it right.-
-Joseph
Sobran
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but
I never believed it until now.-
-John F. Kennedy
My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.-
-Spike
Milligan
My father was frightened of his father, I was frightened of my father,
and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened
of me.-
-King George V
No man is responsible for his father. That is entirely his mother's
affair.-
-Margaret Turnbull
Noble fathers have noble children.-
-Euripedes
She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.-
-Groucho
Marx
Some men are Baptists, others Catholics. My father was an Oldsmobile
man.-
-Jean Shepherd
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be
a credit to them.-
-Bertrand Russell
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love
their mother.-
-Theodore Hesburgh
The similarities between me and my father are different.-
-Dale
Berra
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an
extraordinary father.-
-Austin O'Malley
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.-
-Ernest Hemingway
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