Quotes #13 ================================================ Last year on Father's Day, my son gave me something I've always wanted: the keys to my car !!! ______________________________________________________ My dad used to play games with me. He used to throw me in the air -- and walk away. ================================================ ================================================ "What were your father's last words ?" "He had no last words. My mother was with him to the end!" (Milton Berle ) ______________________________________________________ Father's Day is a holiday on which the family takes time out to remember the forgotten man ! ( Milton Berle ) ================================================ ================================================ Fatherhood is pretending the present you love the most is soap - on - a - rope. ( Bill Cosby ) ______________________________________________________ Father's Day is a holiday when your son lets you wear your new necktie first. ================================================ ================================================ I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. ( Harry S. Truman ) ______________________________________________________ Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter. ( Lavina Christensen Fugal) ================================================ ================================================ If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson ... hold yourself up as an example and not as a warning. ( George Bernard Shaw ) ______________________________________________________ The commonest fallacy among women ( and men -- in my humble opinion ) is that simply having children makes them a mother ( a father ) -- which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician. ( Sydney J. Harris ) ================================================ ================================================ Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son. ( Evelyn Waugh ) ______________________________________________________ Could I climb to the highest place in Athens, I would lift my voice and proclaim, "Fellow citizens, why do you turn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom one day you must relinquish it all." ( Socrates ) ================================================ ================================================ A father lectured his son on the real values of life. The father said, "We were put on Earth to help others." The boy said, "What are the others here for?" ( Milton Berle ) ______________________________________________________ "Son, when I was your age, I used to be thrilled just to get a piece of dry bread for dinner." "Gee, Dad, you're much better off living with us, aren't you?" ================================================ ================================================ Father's Day always worries me. I'm afraid I'll get something I can't afford. ______________________________________________________ Do you know what I got for Father's Day ? The bills for Mother's Day !!! ================================================ ================================================ I'm getting my father something he never had before -- a Job !!! ______________________________________________________ Father's Day is the day when father goes broke giving his family money so they can surprise him with gifts he doesn't need. ================================================ ================================================ There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them. ( Confucius ) ______________________________________________________ The family is one of nature's masterpieces. ( George Santayana ) ================================================ ================================================ We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents. ( Henry Ward Beecher ) ______________________________________________________ Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ( Peter Ustinov ) ================================================ ================================================ Security is when I'm very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back. ( Shelley Winters ) ______________________________________________________ There are two stages for parents -- when your children ask all the questions and when they think they know all the answers. ================================================ ================================================ A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package. ______________________________________________________ You should never criticize your wife's judgment -- look who she decided to marry !!! ================================================ ================================================ Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ( James Baldwin ) ______________________________________________________ Example is not the main thing in influencing others; It is the only thing. ( Albert Schweitzer ) ================================================ ================================================ My son is now at the awkward age, too old to cry and too young to swear. ______________________________________________________ My son is now at the awkward age, too young for a credit card and too old for an allowance. ================================================ ================================================ Every family should have three children. If one turns out to be a genius, the other two can support him / her. ______________________________________________________ "What's wrong, son ?" "I just had a fight with your wife !" ================================================ ================================================ An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. ( Albert Einstein ) _______________________________________________________ Imagination is more important than knowledge. ( Albert Einstein ) ______________________________________________________ The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, and thus we are being driven unarmed towards a catastrophe. ( Albert Einstein ) ______________________________________________________ Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing. ( Albert Einstein ) ================================================ Nothing but Jokes by Nauman Faridi