quotes about dads

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ~Joaquin de Setanti


A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. ~Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain


All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them. ~William F. Halsey


I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time. ~Bill Gold


Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. ~St. Jerome, Attack on Jovinian


There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death. ~Kenneth Patchen


I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. ~Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849


There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death. ~Fran Lebowitz


There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt. ~Author Unknown


Harmony seldom makes a headline. ~Silas Bent


What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The easiest way to keep a secret is without help. ~Author Unknown


Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid. ~Tracy Kidder


Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. ~William James, The Principles of Psychology


Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. ~Stephen Vincent Benet


An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job. ~Author Unknown


Insanity is hereditary - you get it from your kids. ~Sam Levenson


If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food. ~Sally Edwards


The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. ~William Shenstone


His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets. ~Dorothy Parker