On Father's Day, we chose 15 of the most beautiful phrases about fatherhood taken by the most famous writers ever
March 19, Father's Day: a selection of the most beautiful phrases about fatherhood, written by the best writers in history. Choose your favorite
It doesn't matter who my father was, it matters what I remember it was (Anne Sexton, English writer) It is not difficult to become a father. Being a father: this is difficult (Wilhelm Busch) Being a successful father is a unique role: when you have a child, don't just follow him for the first two years (Ernest Hemingway) The one who really knows his son is a good father. (William Shakespeare) He who begets a son is not yet a father, a father is he who begets a son and makes himself worthy of it. (Fëdor Dostoevskij) I think it becomes what our father taught us in his downtime, while he didn't bother to educate us. We are formed on waste of wisdom. (Umberto Eco) The most severe father in his reproaches is rude in words, but father in actions (Menandro, Frammenti, IV-III century B.C.) I killed the monsters. This is what fathers do (F.K. Wallace) My dad didn't tell me how I was supposed to live: he lived and let me watch him live (Clarence Budington Kelland) Fathers must always give, to be happy. Always give, being a father is in this (Honoré de Balzac) I can't consider any need in childhood as strong as the need for protection from the father (Sigmund Freud) The greatest gift a father can give to his children is to love his mother (Anjaneth Garcia Untalan) Do you know what the bad fathers are? Those who forgot the mistakes of their youth (Denis Diderot) Father's wisdom is the greatest teaching for children (Democritus) It is not flesh and blood, but the heart that makes us fathers and sons (Friedrich Schiller)