"Tis not knowing much, but what is useful, that makes a wise man."

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Quotes, Saying and Proverbs About Dads and Fathers


One father is worth more than a hundred schoolmasters.
- George Herbert

No man is responsible for his father. That is his mother's affair.
- Margaret Turnbull

We think our Fathers Fools
Our wiser Sons, no doubt, will think us so.
- Alexander Pope

A father is a banker provided by nature.
- French Proverb

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other wings.
- Hodding Carter

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
- Lydia M. Child

The glory of a man is from the honour of his father.
- Ecclesiasticus 3:11

Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old enough he will not depart from it.
- Proverbs 12:4

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- Shakespeare

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relations for father and son.
- Evelyn Waugh

Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it yourself, and then all the world will love you, and I more than all the world.
- Thomas Jefferson, from a letter to his daughter

We never know the love of our parents for us until we become parents.
- Henry Ward Beecher

I have found that the best way to give advice to you children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
- Harry S. Truman

Anything which parents have not learned from experience they can now learn from their children.
- Unknown


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