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. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 12 - Inside Information
Quoted: Bilbo
Boredom is the father of all sins.
Daddy's flown across the oceanPink Floyd
Leaving 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 Jones
Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.Friedrich Nietzsche
He 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 Coelho
Source: 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 Waters
If poverty is the mother of crime, stupidity is its father.Jean De La Bruyere
Like 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 Huxley
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer.Pliny the Elder
Sons quote their fathers, in words and in deeds.Terri Guillemets
The child is father of the man.William Wordsworth
The 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 Hesburgh
The 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.
