father-son relationships quotes

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A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the fac ...
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and ...
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
We are not questioning your authority, sir, but if manners prevent our speaking the truth, we will be without manners.
In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get it nearer to m ...
I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.
Leontine: An only son, sir, might expect more indulgence.
Croaker: An only father, sir, might expect more obedience.
I'll come up the steps to the house and the gardener will be clipping away at the hedges and he'll say, "Good evening, Mr. Younger ...
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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