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Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father. — Jean De La Bruyere

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children. — Johann Hari

My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example. — Ted Danson

I say to all fathers - be as good as you can be- because your sons and daughters will follow in your footsteps. — Duane Chapman

He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, Good fences make good neighbors. — Robert Frost

It's a little girl named anna, and she doesn't know if she's ready to say good-bye to a father she's never really said hello to. — Pamela Ribon

Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing. — Cesare Pavese

A minister stands for Father Peace, but a good one is no stranger to Mother War. — Joe Abercrombie

weeks." "Sounds like a good idea. The police may have options for investigating that your father and — Claire Fogel

What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation. — Steve Maraboli

Father used to say it's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good." "Not — Khaled Hosseini

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father. — Barbra Streisand

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It feels good to have parents, but it feels even better to not have an evil one. — M.F. Moonzajer

Father Brown: ... one can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place — G.K. Chesterton

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts. — Mary Ellen Chase

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society. — Billy Graham

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative. — Anthony Kiedis

I know what a good man is because I saw it in my father. — Raimond Gaita

Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses. — Facundo Pieres

My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that. — Ziggy Marley

My father taught me a good lesson: Don't get to low when things go wrong. And don't get too high when things are good. — Robert Parish

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle. — Adam Sandler

I was in no way ready when my daughter was born. But I want to be a good father to her. — El DeBarge

In my life, I'm just looking for that life of integrity that my father had. I have a good heart; I'm not a heartbreaker. — Johnathon Schaech

Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their
fathers. These laws were good. — Chief Joseph

Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man. — Robert Duvall

I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman. — Arnold Palmer

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin. — Virginia Madsen

Like father, like son: every good tree maketh good fruits. — William Langland

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust. — William Shakespeare

My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic. — Danny Aiello

I'm many things: I'm a convicted rapist, I'm a hell-raiser, I'm a father, a loving father. I'm a semi-good husband ... I'm pretty much a tyrant-titan. — Mike Tyson

.....if he's not man enough to stand up to your father, and take the crap he has to dish out, then he's not good enough to be with you. — Sam Crescent

How much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! Matthew 7:11 — Beth Moore

Hark ye,'said the father, 'a bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse. You've not learned your trade yet, Samson. — Anna Sewell

You marry the one who will be a good father, not a good lay. — Tom Cardamone

You are the reason I want to be good, the reason I have seen the evil in my father. You make me good. You make me whole — Rebecca Ethington

As I once told your mother, I do not accept trying. Trying is not good enough. Change. You can. — Jane Lark

Father said all good things in life were fragile and easily lost - he — Khaled Hosseini

I know it's not good for a girl to be without a father these days. But is it any better for a father to be without a daughter? — Gavriel Savit

Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us. — Mark Twain

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife. — John Lithgow

The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

When one has not had a good father, one must create one. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had. — Aristotle.

She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments. — David Benioff

A boy does not need a father unless he is a good father, but a good father is indispensable. — Stephen King

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced. — John Hurt

A good father and a good outlaw can't settle inside the same man. — J-Ax

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow. — Jonathan Swift

He still didn't think I was good enough for you."
"No father thinks any man is good enough for his daughter. — Nicholas Sparks

I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart. — Orson Scott Card

A father is only capable of giving what he has, and what he knows. A good father gives all of himself that is good. — Vincent Carrella

My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god. — Chazz Palminteri

But now I thought of Father, and it felt good to know I could still feel fear. — Mark Lawrence

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps. — Dick Gregory

My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge. — Mickey Kaus

I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day. — Mike Tyson

Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child's needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish. — Penelope Ward

My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad. — Jane Pauley

A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers. — Irving Bacheller

I have no doubt that I'd be a marvelous father. Maybe not when they're tiny, but when they're a little bit older, I think I'd be rather good. — Hugh Grant

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is. — Alexa Ray Joel

We must remember that we are sons (and daughters) of God, not because we are so good but because God is that good. — Paul Silway

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more. — Pete Rose

My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer. — Miles Davis

The father's role, he says, is to provide the mother with the peace and security she needs to be a good enough mother. — Massimilla Harris

All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad. — Monique Roffey

A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father. — Lois Greiman

They're politicians," her father pointed out dryly. "A good grip on reality isn't part of the job description. — Christopher G. Nuttall

My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him. — Amy Sedaris

Our prayer must be, Father, I'm waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it. — James MacDonald

I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s. — Cherie Lunghi

Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead. — James Joyce

The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father. — Mort Sahl

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love. — William Watson Purkey

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I hope you grow up to be as good a mother as your father — Robert Rankin

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously. — Roz Chast

Everyone's unique; no one's ever alike. But my son has the same good cheer as my father. He's capable of making a room happy with a few words. — Jon Voight

My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited. — Brian Dennehy