Sons Quotes
Good fathers make good sons.
- Proverb
Tiger father begets tiger son.
- Chinese Proverb
Son, you outgrew my lap, but never my heart!
- Proverb
Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
- Plato
A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.
- George Herbert
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
- Plato
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.
- Russian Proverb
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
- Louisa May Alcott
Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man’s joke is always funny.
- Hebrew Proverb
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
- Croesus
Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.
- Chinese Proverb
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
- George Herbert
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
- Bruce Barton
Desire not a multitude of unprofitable children, neither delight in ungodly sons.
- Bible
Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A single son endowed with good qualities is far better than a hundred devoid of them.
- Chanakya
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
- Alexander Pope
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
- Aldous Huxley
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
- Kahlil Gibran
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
- John Adams
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
- Anne Frank
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.
- Charles Wadsworth
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
A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head,and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.
- Allan Beck
My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
- Pete Rose
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
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
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
- Chanakya
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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


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