Parents are patterns. [ Proverb ]
Scabby parents will have scurfy children. [ Proverb ]
Fate gives us parents; choice gives us friends. [ Delille ]
Great families of yesterday we show,
And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who. [ Daniel De Foe ]
Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly; swear not. [ William Shakespeare ]
To a beggar not even his own parents show affection. [ Proverb ]
The Alphabet Of Success
Attend carefully to details.
Be prompt in all things.
Consider well, then decide positively.
Dare to do right, fear to do wrong.
Endure trials patiently.
Fight life's battles bravely.
Go not into the society of the vicious.
Hold your integrity sacred.
Injure not another's reputation.
Join hands only with the virtuous.
Keep your mind free from evil thoughts.
Lie not for any consideration.
Make few special acquaintances.
Never try to appear what you are not.
Observe good manners.
Pay your debts promptly.
Question not the verity of a friend.
Respect the desires of your parents.
Sacrifice money rather than principle.
Touch not, taste not, handle not intoxicating drinks.
Use your leisure for improvement.
Venture not upon the threshold of wrong.
Watch carefully over your passions.
Xtend to everyone a kindly greeting.
Yield not to discouragement.
Zealously labor for the right, and success is certain. [ Ladies Home Journal ]
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. [ Delille ]
God, and parents, and our master, can never be requited. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Earthly paradise: the parents young, the children small. [ Victor Hugo ]
Children, when little, make parents fools, when great, mad. [ Proverb ]
American women are wonderfully clever in concealing their parents. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Respect for one's parents is the highest of the duties of civil life. [ Chinese Proverb ]
It is of no consequence of what parents any man is born, so that he be a man of merit. [ Horace ]
Parents deserve reproof when they refuse to benefit their children by severe discipline. [ Petronius Arbiter ]
Childien when they are little make parents fools, when they are great they make them mad. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that dies troubles his parents but once, but he that lives ill torments them perpetually. [ Proverb ]
Infants' manners are moulded more by the example of parents than by stars at their nativities. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child, when his parents die, the past dies. [ Auerbach ]
A child becomes for his parents, according to the education he receives, a blessing or a chastisement. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them, rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Little League baseball is a good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets and the kids out of the house. [ Yogi Berra ]
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of conviction. The leaden bullet is more fatal than when multiplied into shot. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends toward the formation of character. Let parents bear this ever in mind. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty. [ H. W. Beecher ]
Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books. [ William Shakespeare ]
Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature. [ Pascal ]
When I look upon the tombs of the great, every motion of envy dies; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire forsake me: when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I reflect how vain it is to grieve for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying beside those who deposed them, when I behold rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men who divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the frivolous competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. [ Addison ]
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 ]