Father's Day Quotes

This Father's Day, plan something special for daddy dear. You can take him golfing, if that is his thing. If you want to go easier on your pocket, here is a cheaper, but thoughtful gift: make him a photo album of your favorite childhood pictures. Use these Father's Day quotes to tag each photograph. He will cherish these memoirs forever.

• Kent Nerburn
  It is a wise father that knows his own child.
  
  
• Anne Frank
  How true Daddy's words were when he said: 'All children must look after their own upbringing.' Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
  
  
• Carol Coats
  A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be.
  
  
• Jean de La Fontaine
  It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
  
  
• William Hamilton Hayne
  It matters not that Time has shed
  His thawless snow upon your head,
  For he maintains, with wondrous art,
  Perpetual summer in your heart.
  
  
• Louis Adamic
  My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.
  
  
• Aeschylus
  Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
  
  
• Alexander the Great
  I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
  
  
• Bill Cosby
  If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
  
  
• Mario Cuomo
  I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.
  
  
• Euripedes
  Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
  
  
• Exodus 20:12
  Fifth Commandment: Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
  
  
• Natasha Josefowitz
  My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.
  
  
• Friedrich Nietzche
  Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
  
  
• Publilius Syrus
  An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
  
  
• Anne Sexton
  It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
  
  
• Paul Lewis
  A father's words are like a thermostat that sets the temperature in the house.
  
  
• Robert Bly
  When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
  
  
• Mary Ellen Chase
  Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake, but as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.
  
  
• Nancy Friday
  The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
  
  
• Kurt Avish
  Once, God gave me the greatest gift ever. I call that gift: Dad.