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~ If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. ~

~ The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence. ~

Lajos Kassak

~ At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family. ~

Jack Bowman

~ I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day. (2 Timothy 1:3) ~

Bible

~ When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years. ~

Mark Twain

~ What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation. ~

Steve Maraboli

~ Perhaps my only secret is that I always bear in mind what my father said: "Do the smallest things in daily routine with enthusiasm and sincerity." ~

Nerrisa Ng

~ No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. ~

Miguel De Cervantes

~ A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son. ~

William Graham Sumner

~ The greatest crimes are to associate another with God, to vex your father and mother, to murder your own species, to commit suicide, and to swear to lie. ~

Muhammad

~ A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother. ~

Bible

~ Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. ~

Joseph Addison

~ They alone are sons who are devoted to their father. He is a father who supports his sons. He is a friend in whom we can confide, and she only is a wife in whose company the husband feels contented and peaceful. ~

Chanakya

~ What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. ~

William Shakespeare

~ Tiger father begets tiger son. ~

Chinese Proverb

~ The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. ~

Robert Frost

~ No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace - in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. ~

Croesus of Lydia

~ 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

~ Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. ~

Aldous Huxley

~ We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. ~

Alexander Pope

~ He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic. ~

Nicolas Bentley

~ He who can be a good son will be a good father. ~

Unknown

~ Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did. ~

Martin Andersen-Nexö

~ No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. ~

Croesus of Lydia

~ In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons. ~

Croesus

~ Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. ~

Victor Hugo

~ A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. ~

Niccolo Machiavelli

~ For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. ~

Homer

~ The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature. ~

William Ames

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