No love to a father's. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Like father, like son. [ French Proverb ]
Such a father such a son. [ Proverb ]
Old father antic the law. [ William Shakespeare ]
Oh, who would be a father! [ Holcroft ]
Child's pig, but father's hog. [ Proverb ]
Our father's dust is left alone
And silent under other snows. [ Tennyson ]
The child is father of the man. [ Wordsworth ]
No one ever knew his own father. [ Buckley ]
Shall Error in the round of time
Still father Truth? [ Tennyson ]
Time is the father of mutability. [ Solon ]
The poor make no new friends;
But oh, they love the better still
The few our Father sends. [ Lady Dufferin ]
A father is a banker given by nature.
Prosperity forgets father and mother. [ Spanish Proverb ]
Father! forgive the heart that clings
Thus trembling to the things of time,
And bid my soul, on angel's wings
Ascend into a purer clime. [ Jane Roscoe ]
An ill father desires not an ill son. [ Proverb ]
Labor is often the father of pleasure. [ Voltaire ]
In my Father's house are many mansions. [ Jesus ]
O father, what a hell of witchcraft lies
In the small orb of one particular tear! [ William Shakespeare ]
Love masters agony; the soul that seemed
Forsaken feels her present God again
And in her Father's arms
Contented dies away. [ John Keble ]
Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. [ William Shakespeare ]
It is a wise father that knows his own child. [ William Shakespeare ]
He is a wise child that knows his own father. [ Proverb ]
Zounds! I was never so be thumped with words
Since I first called my brother's father dad. [ William Shakespeare, King John, Act II. Sc.1 ]
Fathers alone a father's heart can know,
What secret tides of still enjoyment flow,
When brothers love, but if their hate succeeds,
They wage the war, but 'tis the father bleeds. [ Young ]
That I might live alone once with my gold!
Oh 't is a sweet companion I kind and true!
A man may trust it, when his father cheats him,
Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf.
That which makes all men false, is true itself. [ Jonson ]
Ask the mother, if the child be like his father. [ Proverb ]
Happy is the man whose father went to the devil. [ Proverb ]
Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God. [ Lamartine ]
He whose father is judge goes safe to his trial. [ Proverb ]
Speak good of pipers, your father was a fiddler. [ Proverb ]
Mock no pannier-man if your father was a fisher. [ Proverb ]
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Do not, for ever, with thy veiled lids
Seek for thy noble father in the dust;
Thou knowst 'tis common; all that lives must die.
Passing through nature to eternity. [ William Shakespeare ]
Happy is the child whose father went to the devil. [ Proverb ]
Be a father to Virtue, but a father in-law to Vice. [ Proverb ]
Whoever is king, is also the father of his country. [ Congreve ]
Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. [ Bible ]
Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not. [ Bible ]
Gold, father of flatterers, of pain and care begot,
A fear it is to have thee, and a pain to have thee not. [ Palladas ]
Your father's honour is to you but a second-hand honour. [ Proverb ]
Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us. [ Thackeray ]
Fathers that wear rags do make their children blind:
But fathers that bear bags shall see their children kind. [ William Shakespeare ]
Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair. [ French Proverb ]
He was scarce of news who told that his father was hanged. [ Proverb ]
He who kills the father and leaves the children is a fool. [ Proverb ]
Experience is the father of Wisdom, and Memory the mother. [ Proverb ]
The mother knows best whether the child be like the father. [ Proverb ]
Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house. [ Thomas Brooks ]
No night is so dark that our Father's smile cannot cheer it. [ Mrs. S. H. De Kroyft ]
Pater-noster built churches, and our father pulled them down. [ Proverb ]
Cost is the father and compensation is the mother of progress. [ J. G. Holland ]
To plough and sow, to reap and mow, my father bred me early,
For one, he said, to labour bred, was a match for fortune fairly. [ Burns ]
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A father is a treasure, a brother a comfort; but a friend is both. [ Proverb ]
Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Envy hath a leer of her father the devil, but cruelty his very face. [ Proverb ]
An happy man shall have more cousins, than his father had kinsfolks. [ Proverb ]
God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct. [ Aughey ]
Their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. [ Jesus of children ]
If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father of them. [ Bruyere ]
Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer. [ Bovee ]
As a wise child makes a happy father, so a wise father makes a happy child. [ Proverb ]
Children suck the mother when they are young, and the father when grown up. [ Proverb ]
A father or a brother may be hated zealously, and loved civilly or naturally. [ Milton ]
If ye forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you. [ Bible ]
A mother's tenderness and a father's care are nature's gifts for man's advantage. [ L. Murray ]
I was never so bethumped with words since first I called my brother's father dad. [ William Shakespeare ]
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The father sighs more at the death of one son, than he smiles at the birth of many. [ Proverb ]
These lies are like the father that begets them; gross as a mountain, open, palpable. [ William Shakespeare ]
As surfeit is the father of much fast, so every scope by the immoderate use turns to restraint. [ William Shakespeare ]
To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child, when his parents die, the past dies. [ Auerbach ]
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again. [ South ]
The greatest thing a man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of his other children. [ Henry Drummond ]
Can man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace, or their father and mother. [ Mrs. Marian Lewes Cross (pen name George Eliot) ]
Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house. [ Babcock ]
To a father who loves his children victory has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion. [ Napoleon I ]
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature. [ Quintilian ]
To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness. [ Euripides ]
Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care. [ Euripides ]
A father who whipped his son for swearing and swore at him while he whipped him, did more harm by his example than good by his correction. [ Thomas Fuller ]
From my father inherit I stature and the earnest conduct of life; from motherkin my cheerful disposition and pleasure in fanciful invention. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, of himself ]
Nature has directly formed woman to be a mother, only indirectly to be a wife; man, on the contrary, is rather made to be a husband than a father. [ Jean Paul ]
To have neither superior, nor inferior, nor equal, united manlike to you; without father, without child, without brother, - man knows no sadder destiny. [ Carlyle ]
Look at home, father priest, mother priest; your church is a hundredfold heavier responsibility than mine can be. Your priesthood is from God's own hands. [ Ward Beecher ]
The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father, the former has intellect; the latter, genius, which itself is a kind of luxury. [ Schopenhauer ]
Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins? [ Bovee ]
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him. [ Swift ]
He only is great who has the habits of greatness; who, after performing what none in ten thousand could accomplish, passes on like Samson, and tells neither father nor mother of it.
[ Lavater ]
Aspiration, worthy ambition, desires for higher good for good ends, - all these indicate a soul that recognizes the beckoning hand of the good Father, who would call us homeward toward Himself. [ J. G. Holland ]
Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining. [ Adam Clarke ]
A man's love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to the sanctities of home, and to the thoughts which leap up from his father's graves. [ Chapin ]
I should have been a French atheist were it not for the recollection of the time when my departed mother used to take my little hand in hers, and make me say, on my bended knees, Our Father who art in heaven!
[ John Randolph ]
Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. The charlatan is verbose and assumptive; the Pharisee is ostentatious, because he is a hypocrite. Pride is the master sin of the Devil; and the Devil is the father of lies. [ Chapin ]
Education does not commence with the alphabet; it begins with a mother's look, with a father's nod of approbation, or a sign of reproof; with a sister's gentle pressure of the hand, or a brother's noble act of forbearance. [ G. A. Sala ]
Food, improperly taken, not only produces originnl diseases, but affords those that are already engendered both matter and sustenance; so that, let the father of disease be what it may. In temperance is certainly its mother. [ Burton ]
The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him. [ T. W. Higginson ]
Phaeton was his father's heir; born to attain the highest fortune without earning it; he had built no sun-chariot (could not build the simplest wheel-barrow), but could and would insist on driving one; and so broke his own stiff neck, sent gig and horses spinning through infinite space, and set the universe on fire. [ Carlyle ]
Take the title of nobility which thou hast received by birth, but endeavor to add to it another, that both may form a true nobility. There is between the nobility of thy father and thine own the same difference which exists between the nourishment of the evening and of the morrow. The food of yesterday will not serve three for today, and will not give thee strength for the next. [ Jamakchari ]
You can throw yourselves away. You can become of no use in the universe except for a warning. You can lose your souls. Oh, what a loss is that! The perversion and degradation of every high and immortal power for an eternity! And shall this be true of any one of you? Will you be lost when One has come from heaven, traveling in the greatness of His strength, and with garments dyed in blood, on purpose to guide you home - home to a Father's house - to an eternal home? [ Mark Hopkins ]
Throughout the pages of history we are struck with the fact that our remarkable men possessed mothers of uncommon talents for good or bad, and great energy of character; it would almost seem from this circumstance, that the impress of the mother is more frequently stamped on the boy, and that of the father upon the girl - we mean the mental intellectual impress, in distinction from the physical ones. Mothers will do well to remember that their impress is often stamped upon their sons. [ Helen Mar ]
If thy mother be a widow, give her double honor, who now acts the part of a double parent; remember her nine month's burden, and her tenth month's travel; forget not her indulgence, when thou didst hang upon her tender breast; call to mind her prayers for thee before thou earnest into the world; and her cares for thee when thou wert come into the world; remember her secret groans, her affectionate tears, her broken slumbers, her daily fears, her nightly frights; relieve her wants, cover her imperfections, comfort her age, and the widow's husband will be the orphan's father. [ F. Quarles ]
I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking. I do not know just when I began to smoke, I only know that it was in my father's lifetime, and that I was discreet. He passed from this life early in 1847, when I was a shade past eleven; ever since then I have smoked publicly. As an example to others, and - not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake. It is a good rule. I mean, for me; but some of you know quite well that it wouldn't answer for everybody that's trying to get to be seventy. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
The love of a mother is never exhausted; it never changes, it never tires. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands; but a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; she still remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of Iris childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy. [ W. Irving ]
My friends, if you had but the power of looking into the future you might see that great things may come of little things. There is the great ocean, holding the navies of the world, which comes from little drops of water no larger than a woman's tears. There are the great constellations in the sky, made up of little bits of stars. Oh, if you could consider his future you might see that he might become the greatest poet of the universe, the greatest warrior the world has ever known, greater than Caesar, than Hannibal, than--er--er" (turning to the father) - What's his name?
The father hesitated, then whispered back: His name? Well, his name is Mary Ann.
[ Mark Twain, Educations and Citizenship ]
Since I was seven years old I have seldom take, a dose of medicine, and have still seldomer needed one. But up to seven I lived exclusively on allopathic medicines. Not that I needed them, for I don't think I did; it was for economy; my father took a drug-store for a debt, and it made cod-liver oil cheaper than the other breakfast foods. We had nine barrels of it, and it lasted me seven years. Then I was weaned. The rest of the family had to get along with rhubarb and ipecac and such things, because I was the pet. I was the first Standard Oil Trust. I had it all. By the time the drugstore was exhausted my health was established, and there has never been much the matter with me since. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
With whatever respect and admiration a child may regard a father, whose example has called forth his energies, and animated him in his various pursuits, he turns with greater affection and intenser love to a kind-hearted mother; the same emotion follows him through life; and when the changing vicissitudes of after years have removed his parents from him, seldom does the remembrance of his mother occur to his mind, unaccompanied by the most affectionate recollections. Show me a man, though his brow be furrowed, and his hair grey, who has forgotten his mother, and I shall suspect that something is going on wrong within him; either his memory is impaired, or a hard heart is beating in his bosom. [ Mogridge ]