Fathers Quotes

The sins of the fathers are often visited upon the sons - In - Law.

Joan Kise

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

Aristotle, Politics

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.

Margaret Mead

The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self - Reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.

Henry Louis Mencken

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Aristotle

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

Benjamin McLane Spock

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

William Feathe

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

Charles Austin Beard, historian

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

Daughters go into analysis hating their fathers and come out hating their mothers. They never come out hating themselves.

Laurie Jo Wojcik

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

Bertrand Russell

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Homer, The Odyssey

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

Smiley Blanton

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

Kipling

Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.

Unknown

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Home

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

Euripides, Phrixus

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

Philip Caldwell

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

Benjamin Spock

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended - Not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

Barber B. Conable, J

Victory has a thousand fathers; defeat is an orphan.

John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]., p289. Comment made by JFK in the aftermath of the fai

The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell upon their knees. Then they fell upon the aborigines.

(Anon.)

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

Rudyard Kipling