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Quotations about Sons
Not flesh and blood, but the heart makes us fathers and sons. ~Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), The Robbers, 1781, translated by Christopher Wharton Mann, 1842
One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father. ~Outlandish Proverbs, selected by George Herbert (1593–1633)
What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. ~Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
Every mother cries silently to her sons — be bold, be brave — but be very, very careful! ~Pam Brown, To a Very Special Son, 2008, helenexley.com
I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine. ~John Adams, 1780
Then he and our father walked away together with arms around each other, for, indeed, that was the way with them. The friendship of those two was most beautiful. They went, and God walked with them. ~Edward Payson Powell (1833–1915), "An Old-Time Thanksgiving," 1904
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. ~James Baldwin
Having a child ends forever a man's boyhood, if not his boyishness. Having a child means that the son has, in a real sense, become his father. Sons are for fathers a twice-told tale. ~Victoria Secunda, Women and Their Fathers, 1992
O Lord! my boy, my Arthur, my fair son!
My life, my joy, my food, my all the world!
~William Shakespeare, King John, c.1596 [III, 4, Constance]
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and, considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless. You and I form, I believe, an exception to that rule; for, I am persuaded, that we would neither of us change our relation, were it in our power. You will, I both hope and believe, be not only the comfort, but the pride of my age; and, I am sure, I will be the support, the friend, the guide of your youth. ~Lord Chesterfield, letter to his son, 1751
A son is the guy who flings himself. He bounces, bumps, ducks, dives, slides, pounds, paddles, fidgets and falls. Then he picks himself up and does it all again. ~Pam Brown, To a Very Special Son, 2008, helenexley.com
And still to-morrow's wiser than to-day.
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow;
Our wiser sons no doubt will think us so.
~Alexander Pope
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers... ~Aldous Huxley
With secret Joy, indulgent David view'd
His Youthful Image in his Son renew'd:
To all his wishes nothing he deny'd...
What faults he had (for who from faults is free?)
His Father could not, or he would not see...
~John Dryden, "Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem," 1681
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world. ~Helen Rowland
Some time before his death, he had stamped his likeness upon a little boy. ~Charles Dickens, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, 1837
He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons. ~Carlo Goldoni, Pamela, 1750, translated from the Italian
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. ~Epictetus, translated by George Long, 1890
On the green they watched their sons
Playing till too dark to see,
As their fathers watched them once,
As my father once watched me...
~Edmund Blunden, "Forefathers"
Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no more pleasant thing to hear than when a father speaks words of praise to his son.
...if a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. ~Sigmund Freud
Sons flash their headlights when they leave. It means a lot to the shadow standing at the window. ~Pam Brown, To a Very Special Son, 2008, helenexley.com
...that unfeather'd, two-Leg'd thing, a Son... ~John Dryden, "Absalom and Achitophel," 1681
I wish to impress these matters upon you, because you are the eldest of your father's family. The oldest son should consider himself the second father of the family. ~Washington Irving, letter to Pierre Paris Irving (nephew), 1824
He to whom God gave no sons the Devil gives nephews. ~Spanish proverb, quoted by Thomas Fielding, 1824
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