~ I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. ~
~ One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father ~
~ It is a wise child that knows his own father ~
~ Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career ~
~ When one has not had a good father, one must create one. ~
~ By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. ~
~ All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye ~
~ The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father. ~
~ You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular. ~
~ For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. ~
~ Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. ~
~ An angry father is most cruel towards himself. ~