Father Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) English statesman, man of letters
No man is responsible for his father. That is entirely his mother’s affair.
Margaret Turnbull (1890-1942) American writer, politician
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Austin O’Malley (18584 932) American oculist, writer
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 (1899-1961) American author
What harsh judgesfathers are to all young men!
Terence (c. 190-159 Bc) Roman dramatist
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British philosopher, mathematician, social reformer
An unforgiving -eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.
R. B. Sheridan (1751-1816) Anglo-Irish dramatist
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
17th-century English Proverb
Leontine: An only son, sir, might expect more indulgence. Croaker: An only father, sir, might expect more obedience.
The Good-Natur’d Man Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
Robert Burton (1577-1640) English clergyman, author
Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said “Box about ’twill come to my father anon.”
John Aubrey (1626-1697) English antiquary
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author
The father’s thanklessposition in the family is to be everybody’s breadwinner, everybody’s enemy.
August Strindberg (1849-1912) Swedish dramatist
His father watched him across the gulf of years and which always must divide a father from his son. Pathos
J. P. Marquand (1893-1960) American novelist
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
Croesus (d. c. 560 ac) Lydian king
You’re a kind of father figure to me, Dad.
