Logo
Two little girls, on their way home from Sunday school, were solem

Two little girls, on their way home from Sunday school, were solemnly discussing the lesson. “Do you believe there is a devil?” asked one. “No,” said the other promptly. “It’s like Santa Claus: it’s your father.” – Nebelspalter (Zurich, Switzerland), quoted in The Literary Digest, Vol.106, 1930

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Fathers
category

There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. – John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994

Category:
Fathers

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. – Joseph Joubert

Category:
Fathers

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne. – Hank Williams, Jr.

Category:
Fathers

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much. – Hedy Lamarr

Category:
Fathers

Random Quotes

Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing. – Greg Bear

Category:
amazing

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. – Francis Hutcheson

Category:
Happiness

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. – Thomas Jefferson

Category:
Beauty

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. – Milton Friedman

Category:
Government