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So many people over the years have had a lot to say about fathers! Here are some quotes about fathers to think about this Father抯 Day:

揑t is a wise father who knows his own child.??William Shakespeare

揃y the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he抯 wrong.??Charles Wadsworth

揟o be a successful father, there抯 one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don抰 look at it for the first two years.??Ernest Hemingway

揑f 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.??Bill Cosby

揝ometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.??Ruth E. Renkel

揑t doesn抰 matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.??Anne Sexton

揟he most important thing that a father can do for his children is to love their mother.??Theodore M. Hesburgh

揗y father didn抰 tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.??Clarence B. Kelland

揕ove and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.??Joseph Joubert

揘oble fathers have noble children.??Euripides

揥hen 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 at how much he had learned in seven years.??Mark Twain

揂 man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.??Knights of Pythagoras

The best quotes for the Father抯 Day Holiday:

揑t is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.??Pope John XXIII

揃lessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!??Lydia M. Child

揑t is much easier to become a father than to be one.??Kent Nerburn

揟he greatest gift I ever had came from God, and I call him Dad!??Anonymous

揙ne night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the father prayed, Dear God, make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.??Anonymous