Here are some proverbs and quotes about fathers.
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'Every worm has his weak spot', as my father used to say, though I am sure it was not from personal experience.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 12 - Inside Information
Quoted: Bilbo
Boredom is the father of all sins.
Daddy's flown across the ocean
Leaving just a memory
A snap shot in the family album
Daddy what else did you leave for me?
Pink FloydLeaving just a memory
A snap shot in the family album
Daddy what else did you leave for me?
Source: Lyrics: Another Brick In The Wall (Part I)
Experience is the father of wisdom.
Through experience you will gain better judgement.Fatherhood is wonderful.
Terry JonesFathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
Friedrich NietzscheHe remembered something his grandfather had once told him: that butterflies were a good omen. Like crickets, and like grasshoppers; like lizards and four-leaf clovers.
Paulo CoelhoSource: The Alchemist
I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.
Roger WatersIf poverty is the mother of crime, stupidity is its father.
Jean De La BruyereLike father, like son.
The son is expected to have the same character or behave similar as his father.Like grape, like bud. Like father, like son.
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Aldous HuxleyOne father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer.
Pliny the ElderSons quote their fathers, in words and in deeds.
Terri GuillemetsThe child is father of the man.
William WordsworthThe children eat the fruit and the father sleeps on the peel.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore HesburghThe olive grove of your grandfather, the cherry trees of your father, and your grape vines.
The wish is father to the thought.
Unless one pretends to be stupid and deaf, it is difficult to be a mother-in-law or father-in-law.