Sons Quotes

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Good fathers make good sons.
- Proverb

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Tiger father begets tiger son.
- Chinese Proverb

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Son, you outgrew my lap, but never my heart!
- Proverb

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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
- Plato

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A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.
- George Herbert

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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
- Plato

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Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.
- Russian Proverb

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
- Louisa May Alcott

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Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man’s joke is always funny.
- Hebrew Proverb

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In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
- Croesus

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Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.
- Chinese Proverb

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One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
- George Herbert

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
- Bruce Barton

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Desire not a multitude of unprofitable children, neither delight in ungodly sons.
- Bible

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Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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A single son endowed with good qualities is far better than a hundred devoid of them.
- Chanakya

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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare

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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
- Alexander Pope

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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
- Aldous Huxley

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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
- Kahlil Gibran

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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
- John Adams

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Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
- Anne Frank

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By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.
- Charles Wadsworth

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A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can’t lock him out of your heart.
- Allan Beck

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A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head,and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.
- Allan Beck

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

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What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
- Helen Rowland

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As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
- Chanakya

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Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn’t.
- Marge Piercy

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One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.
- Charles Dudley Warner

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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
- James A. Baldwin

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Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus

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The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.
- Charles Dudley Warner

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You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.
- Walter M. Schirra, Sr.

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A man’s desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
- Helen Rowland

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My son, when you were born, you brought me happiness, as you grew, you made me laugh and brought me joy, now you are a man, and you make me proud!
- Catherine Pulsifer

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Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did.
- Martin Andersen