Best Father's Day Sayings and Quotes

Sometimes well-known Father's Day sayings can truly express how you feel about your dad, a father-to-be or someone who's a father figure to you. Your Father's Day message doesn't have to be mushy or gushy. If can be funny, silly or a sweet reminder of a special time you spent together. 

Personalized Gifts for Father's Day
A very nice way to present the quote is to write it inside a blank card. You could also make it into a unique piece of art by printing the quote on and having it framed with a picture of the recipient.

Any book of quotations or quote Web site will provide you with tons of great Father's Day quotes. You can use these as is or as inspiration for your own thougtful words.

Here are some favorite quotes about fatherhood that are perfect for Father's Day:

• Mark Twain, Old Times on the Mississippi
  When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
• Jewish Proverb
  When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
• Knights of Pythagoras
  A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
• Anne Sexton
  It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
• Anonymous
  The greatest gift I ever had came from God, and I call him Dad!
• William Shakespeare
  It is a wise father that knows his own child.
• Confucius
  The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
• Johann Schiller
  It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
• Bill Cosby
  Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. 
• Anonymous
  A father carries pictures where his money used to be.