C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Father

Oh, who would be a father!

Holcroft.

No one ever knew his own father.

Buckley.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Shakespeare.

The child is father of the man.

Wordsworth.

Father of all! in every age
In every clime adored,
By saint, by savage, and by sage,
Jehovah, Jove, or Lord.

Pope.

To you your father should be as a god;
One that compos’d your beauties; yea, and one,
To whom you are but as a form in wax,
By him imprinted, and within his power,
To leave the figure, or disfigure it.

Shakespeare.

Fathers that wear rags do make their children blind:
But fathers that bear bags shall see their children kind.

Shakespeare.

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