1. William Shakespeare It is a wise father that knows his own child.
2. J. August Strindberg That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
3. Ruth E. Renkel Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
4. George Washington Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.
5. T. S. Eliot Those who trust us educate us.
6. Mark Twain 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.
7. Bartrand Hubbard I've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started.
8. Charles Wadsworth By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
9. Enid Bagnold A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
10. Sigmund Freud I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
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