"My father was frightened of his father, I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me."
- King George V (1865-1936)
"A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be."
- Frank A. Clark
"Fathers should neither be seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life."
- Oscar Wilde
"No man is responsible for his father. That is entirely his mother's affair."
- Margaret Trumbull
"The child had every toy his father wanted."
- Robert C. Whitten
"He became a father today. There'll be hell to pay if his wife finds out."
- Author Unknown
"To become a father is not hard, to be a father is, however."
- Wilhelm Busch
"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope."
- John Ciardi
"I didn't know the full facts of life until I was 17. My father (Sigmund Freud) never talked about his work."
- Martin Freud
"Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't."
- L.L. Hendren
"If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons."
- James Baldwin
"In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons."
- Croesus
