Famous Father's Day Sayings

• My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.- Louis Adamic
• Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.- Aeschylus
• Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.- Louisa May Alcott
• I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.- Alexander the Great
• Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.- Anonymous
• A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.- Enid Bagnold
• If 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
• A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.-Bill Cosby
• Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, Who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, And joined in thy innocent glee.- Margaret Courtney
• I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.- Mario Cuomo
• I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example. - Mario Cuomo