The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
My father was a very contradictory man.
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
The wisest man may be a blind father.
Dad is a really surprising guy. Every time I think he's going to be useless, he ends up doing something amazing and saying exactly the right thing.
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.