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~ Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments. ~

Osama bin Laden

~ Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain. ~

Horace

~ As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his own childhood, our father, and the father we want to be. We must meet our childhood father at close range: get to know him, learn to forgive him, and somehow, go beyond him. ~

Augustus Y. Napier

~ My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. ~

Abraham Lincoln

~ Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. ~

Lewis Mumford

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

Aldous Huxley

~ Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony. ~

Niccolò Machiavelli

~ Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm. ~

David Rockefeller

~ To sum up: your father, whom you love, dies, you are his heir, you come back to find that hardly was the corpse cold before his younger brother popped on to histhrone and into his sheets, thereby offending both legal and natural practice. Now why exactlyare you behaving in this extraordinary manner. ~

SirTom Stoppard

~ This is a race in a heavily Democratic state that, for a Republican candidate, will require full-time devotion in order to win... I could not be a senator and a father during this campaign. I could only be a candidate. ~

Peter G. Fitzgerald

~ He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father. ~

Jean de la Fontaine, Fables

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

Homer

~ It is a wise father that knows his own child. ~

William Shakespeare

~ Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. ~

Evan Esar

~ A father is someone who carries pictures in his wallet where his money used to be ~

Unknown

~ Doubt is the father of invention. ~

Galileo

~ A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him ~

Bible

~ Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety. ~

Henry H. Tweedy

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

Charles Wadsworth

~ A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society. ~

Billy Graham

~ Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough ~

Wilhelm Busch

~ A father's words are like a thermostat that sets the temperature in the house ~

Paul Lewis

~ A father is a banker provided by nature. ~

Proverb

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

Enid Bagnold

~ I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. ~

Sigmund Freud

~ One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father ~

George Herbert

~ It is a wise child that knows his own father ~

Homer

~ Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career ~

Sam Ewing

~ When one has not had a good father, one must create one. ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Charles Wadsworth

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