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
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to, but she’s certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did. -Anonymous
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat. -Robert Frost
A father is a banker provided by nature. – French Proverb
When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, ‘Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?’ He answered, ‘If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.’ – Jerry Lewis
Small boy’s definition of Father’s Day: It’s just like Mother’s Day only you don’t spend so much. – Anonymous
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. -Jewish Proverb
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. -Voltaire
My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. -Clarence B. Kelland
It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one
that unreservedly approves of him. -Mark Twain
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys.” -Harmon Killebrew
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. – George Herbert
You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s. He’s more particular.-Robert Frost
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. – Red Buttons
It’s a terrible thing to raise your own to disown you –Sippican Cottage
Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then
fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher’s mound.
Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three
together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start
all over again. -Jimmy Piersall
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic. – Spike Milligan
(Thanks to reader Al Johnson for sending the video along)
One Response
I thought the point of that video was that a good father excels at that type of guitar playing.
Anon, and I am anon from LAUSD, now home and allowed to watch youtube videos. That was a poorly laid-out Shakespeare reference-
Interestingly but not surprisingly if I want to show my students some youtube videos on exothermic welding or conduit bending I have to bypass the district's education filters and risk incurring the wrath of my monitors downtown.
However, if the topic is global warming and the necessity of living in caves to avoid it the road's wide open.
The way you're tnding your young shoots is gonna give you some glorious shade in a few years-
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