cute quotes about dads

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men. ~Henry David Thoreau



Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses providing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man as twice its natural size. ~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929



Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly. ~Andre Norton



The founding fathers... provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you. ~John Updike, The Centaur, 1963



Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. ~Donald Trump



If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. ~Kurt Lewin



Earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"



Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. ~Robertson Davies



Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. ~Lord Mancroft



Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about! ~Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt



This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it. ~Jonas Salk



It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Over the Teacups, 1891



The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. ~Bertrand Russell



Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. ~Fran�ois de la Rochefoucauld



Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. ~Horace



Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. ~Robert Fulghum



Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. ~Edward Everett Hale



If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. ~Johann von Goethe



For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin. ~Cher



The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..." ~Isaac Asimov