Happy Father's Day!

A few applicable quotes, starting with one that I've heard my own dad quote many times.

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 he had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller

"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

Old Testament: Apocrypha Ecclesiasticus ch.44 v.1
Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.
- The Bible


Harry S Truman
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Anonymous
Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

~ Jean de La Fontaine