| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Father |
| | | A father lives after death in his son. Sanscrit. | 1 |
| A father loves his children in hating their faults. French. | 2 |
| A father’s blessing cannot be drowned in water nor consumed by fire. Russian. | 3 |
| A father’s love for all others is air. Spanish. | 4 |
| A father maintains ten children better than ten children one father. German. | 5 |
| An ill father desireth not an ill son. | 6 |
| As the field, so the crops; as the father, so the sons. German. | 7 |
| Fathers in reclaiming a child should outwit him and seldom beat him. | 8 |
| He does not sing his father’s song; i.e., does not imitate his father. | 9 |
| It is not the anger of the father but his silence that the well-born son dreads. Chinese. | 10 |
| Our fathers find their graves in our short memories and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Sir. F. Browne. | 11 |
Our fathers who were wondrous wise,
Did wash their throats before they washed their eyes. | 12 |
| The father a saint, the son a devil. Italian, Spanish, Portuguese. | 13 |
| The father in praising his son extols himself. Chinese. | 14 |
| The father sighs more at the death of one son than he smiles at the birth of many. | 15 |
| The father to the bough, the son to the plough. | 16 |
| The father’s virtue is the child’s best inheritance. | 17 |
| You may thank God your father was born before you. | 18 | | |
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