The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
Confucius
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore Hesburgh
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Sigmund Freud
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
William Shakespeare
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
Homer
A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be.
Unknown
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
Pope John XXIII
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Austin O'Malley
Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers - and fathering is a very important stage in their development
David M. Gottesman
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
Charles Wadsworth
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
Jean de La Fontaine
A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra