Top 56 Wise Father Quotes
#1. They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.
Andre Braugher
#2. Nay, indeed, if you had your eyes, you might fail of the knowing me: it is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare
#3. And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.
Corrie Ten Boom
#4. If you try to save wisdom until the world is wise, Father, the world will never have it.
Walter M. Miller Jr.
#6. Commandments are loving counsel from a wise Father. Our understanding and concept of God as a loving and personal Heavenly Father allows us no other definition. He gives us commandments for one reason only-because he loves us and wants us to be happy.
Paul H. Dunn
#7. It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
Samuel Butler
#8. I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
Ted Nugent
#9. A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.
Solomon
#10. My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design.
Daniel Defoe
#11. Our Heavenly Father is far too wise and loves us far too much to give us everything we ask for.
Mark Batterson
#12. I will ever be grateful for the wise counsel of a strong and inspired father when he taught, "If you always say no to the first temptation, you will not have to worry if you will be able to say no to the second one."
Harold G. Hillam
#13. Houses" - so the Wise Men tell me
"Mansions"! Mansions must be warm!
Mansions cannot let the tears in,
Mansions must exclude the storm!
"Many Mansions," by "his Father,"
I don't know him; snugly built!
Could the Children find the way there
Some, would even trudge tonight!
Emily Dickinson
#14. A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#15. My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child
Louisa May Alcott
#16. A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.
Halldor Laxness
#17. Holy Father, forgive me for grumbling. I know I've sounded just like the Israelites. I long to dwell not on the If Onlys but on You. Make me wise like the old woodcutter - content with what I know, not perturbed by what I don't know.
Linda Dillow
#19. When I was a small boy, my father told me never to recommend a church or a woman to anyone. And I have found it wise never to recommend a restaurant either. Something always goes wrong with the cheese souffle.
Edmund G. Love
#20. Talk is free," said Odd, "but the wise man chooses when to spend his words." It was something his father used to say.
Neil Gaiman
#21. We are born with our father's names. We are not responsible for their failures. We are responsible for what they made us believe in. That is our only obligation. And it is even then a choice which we may sometimes be wise to ignore.
Warren Eyster
#22. The wisdom to recognize and halt follows the know-how to pollute past rescue. The treaty's signed, but the cancer ticks in your bones. Until I'd murdered my father and fornicated my mother I wasn't wise enough to see I was Oedipus.
John Barth
#23. I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well - obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.
Jenna Bush
#24. Do not speak harshly to a grown-up man. He is old enough to be your father.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#25. And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.
John Sergeant Wise
#26. That time Jesus declared, I thank you, Father, i Lord of heaven and earth, that j you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and k revealed them to little children;
Anonymous
#27. It is a wise child that knows his own father.
[Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]
Homer
#28. My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.
James Tobin
#29. My father, an occasionally wise man, once said that we were blessed only when the gods remained ignorant of us.
Raymond E. Feist
#30. 1My father says a hunch is your brain's way of taking a short cut to the truth,' replied Max.
'He's a wise man, your father. What else does he say?'
'That the more you try to hide from the truth, the quicker it finds you.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#31. They say it's a wise bairn that kens its father, but I dinna think there's much doubt who yours is, lass. Ye might have had the lang nebbit and red locks from anyone, but ye didna get the stubbornness from any man but Jamie Fraser.
Diana Gabaldon
#32. Foreigners are sending messages to the planets. We are sending rice and cereals to our dead fore-father through the Brahmins. It is a wise deed?
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
#33. The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy in him.
Anonymous
#34. The problems of our day loom ominously before us. Surrounded by the sophistication of modern living, we look heavenward for that unfailing sense of direction, that we might chart and follow a wise and proper course. He whom we call our Heavenly Father will not leave our sincere petition unanswered.
Thomas S. Monson
#35. A wise man lays up treasures in the Kingdom of our Father, so as to live a happy eternal life
Sunday Adelaja
#36. 25At that time Jesus prayed this prayer: "O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, thank you for hiding these things from those who think themselves wise and clever, and for revealing them to the childlike. 26Yes, Father, it pleased you to do it this way!
Anonymous
#37. It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.
Mark Twain
#38. The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers of divination.
Learned Hand
#39. And when she said, Father, I love you, she was neither naive nor dishonest, but the opposite: she was wise and truthful enough to lie.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#40. A foolish man enjoys the company of prostitutes;
a wise man enjoys the company of his wife.
The mother of a prudent son will rejoice;
the father of a mindless son will groan.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#41. d A wise son makes a glad father, e but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
Anonymous
#42. My brother (Bruno Mars) is as smart as he is because a lot of things he's doing, creativity wise, our Dad used to do. Things my father used to do visually and musically. I see a lot of my father's influence in both of us.
Eric Hernandez
#43. Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond.
John Sergeant Wise
#45. Every child has a right to its own bent ... It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.
George Bernard Shaw
#46. Animated by Christian motives and directed to Christian ends, it shall in no wise go unrewarded: here, by the testimony of an approving conscience; hereafter, by the benediction of our blessed Redeemer, and a brighter inheritance his Father's house.
Richard Mant
#48. When my father is stern, no one chastises him. I don't think it's fair that when I act similarly, I'm seen as cruel. I'm making a huge decision, and I'm trying to be wise about it.
Kiera Cass
#49. Your father says a wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountaintop.
Deborah Harkness
#50. When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.
Michael Leunig
#51. You can only understand how someone else needs to handle death in the given, specific moment. There are few hard and fast rules. I understand both my father and my friend. Or rather, I understand neither and so allow both the dispensation the ignorant should grant the wise.
Kate Sweeney
#52. My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
Mackenzie Phillips
#53. My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
Chuck D
#54. Ben Franklin said:
"Early to bed and early to rise
Make a man healthy wealthy and wise"
Lately I have read the advice given to William Randolph Hearst, when a young man, by his father:
"Go downtown at noon and rob the other fellows of what they have made during the morning.
E. Haldeman-Julius
#55. Dear Father, hear and bless thy beasts and singing birds, and guard with tenderness small things that have no words.
Margaret Wise Brown
#56. We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
Alexander Pope
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