Dates and Celebrations

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children’s affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.

There are some extraordinary fathers, who seenl, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.

I perceive affection makes a fool / Of any man too much the father.

Deep in the cavern of the infant’s breast / The father’s nature lurks, and lives anew.

To an old father, nothing is more sweet / Than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways / Are not so tender.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither.

My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life.

The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents.

Do not consider painful what is good for you. Euripides A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know --
This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.

I never got along with my dad. When I was a kid, other kids would come up to me: “My dad can beat up your dad.” I’d go, “When?… He cuts the lawn on Saturdays. Nail him out there when he’s got those Bermuda shorts, red tennis shoes, and sock garters on.”

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

A man’s desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.