Quotable Quotes: Father’s Day
by Miki Saxon
Well, what did you expect today, if not quotes about fathers? I did try and find some that weren’t too common and made good points with wit and a touch of irreverence, since I don’t easily digest saccharine.
I think Louis Adamic hits the nail on the head with this bit of wisdom, “My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
More than century ago Wilhelm Busch made an excellent point that is even truer today than it was then, “Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough.”
I always get a laugh out of watching my male friends’ reactions when their daughters start dating; they rightly assume that every guy who comes around is thinking the same thing that they thought when they were the same age. Enid Bagnold summed it up neatly when she said, “A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.”
Obviously, the movers, shakers and wannabes of Wall Street never heard the same advice from their fathers that Dexter Scott King heard from his, “My father said, ‘Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?'”
Finally, all you dads struggling to find the right words to connect and communicate with your kids (it applies just as much to daughters) would do well to factor in this final quote from the sage Anon, “Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice”
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