“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
George Herbert · Jacula Prudentum, 1651
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266 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.
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“Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad.”
Anne Geddes
“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 at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
Mark Twain
“My father didn't tell me how to live. He lived, and let me watch him do it.”
Clarence Budington Kelland
“The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family.”
Reed Markham
“Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.”
Bill Cosby · Fatherhood, 1986
“When I was young, my father told me that my mother would teach me how to love, and he would teach me how to live.”
Common attribution, traditional
“My father didn't tell me how to live. He lived, and let me watch him do it. I think that is the best lesson a father can give.”
Will Rogers
“Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.”
Anne Geddes
“A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.”
Frank A. Clark
“He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
Clarence Budington Kelland
“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Receive without pride, relinquish without struggle.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book 2
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book 4
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
