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76 quotesGambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.
Gambling
French Proverb
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Fathers
Sigmund Freud
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Doubt is the father of invention.
Doubt
Galileo Galilei
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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Death and Dying
Thomas Gray
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One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
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George Herbert
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One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
Fathers
George Herbert
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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Fathers
Theodore M. Hesburgh
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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
Injustice
Horace
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Fathers and Sons
Aldous Huxley
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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
Family
Jewish Proverb
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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Action
Clarence Buddinton Kelland
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Theres an old saying that victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan.
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John F. Kennedy
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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
Freedom
Rudyard Kipling
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If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.
War
Rudyard Kipling
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War is the father of all things. But who is the mother?
War
Gerhard Kocher
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If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
Crime and Criminals
Jean De La Bruyere
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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Ancestry
Abraham Lincoln
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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.
Work
Abraham Lincoln
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Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
Inheritance
Niccolo Machiavelli
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Fathers
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.
Change
Giuseppe Mazzini
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For man he seemsIn all his lineaments, though in his faceThe glimpses of his Fathers glory shine.
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John Milton
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My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
Superiority
Marianne Moore
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Parents and Parenting
Lewis Mumford
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Don't make a baby if you can't be a father.
Fathers
National Urban League Slogan
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun