"My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn."
- Louis Adamic"

"Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will find a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did."
- Anonymous

"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again."
- Enid Bagnold

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
- Jewish Proverb

"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."
- Clarence Budington Kelland

"Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown."
- Author Unknown

"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards."
- Robert Orben

"Never raise your hand to your kids.  It leaves your groin unprotected."
- Red Buttons

"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty."
- Unknown

"A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be."
- Unknown

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."
- Charles Wadsworth