Father's Day Quotes

Father's Day has come around again. Here are some of our favorite quotes perfect for sharing with your father or father figure for the occasion.

Funny Father's Day quotes

"I gave my father $100 and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present for my mother." - Rita Rudner.

"Being a dad is when you realize you can actually like people who puke in your car multiple times." - Unknown

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong." - Charles Wadsworth

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant, I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." - Mark Twain

"Even though I'm proud my dad invented the rear-view mirror, we're not as close as we appear." - Stewart Francis.

"You can tell what was the best year of your father's life because they seem to freeze that clothing style and ride it out." - Jerry Seinfeld.

Short and sweet Father's Day quotes

"A girl's first true love is her father." - Marisol Santiago

"A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely." - Emile Gaboriau

"Like father like son: Every good tree maketh good fruits." - William Langland

"The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get." - Tim Russert

"What you teach your children, you also teach their children." - Unknown

"Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance." - Ruth E. Renkel

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." - George Herbert

"Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough." - Robert Downey Jr.

Biblical Father's Day quotes

Proverbs 22:6: "Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it."

Proverbs 23:24: "The father of a righteous child has great joy; a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him."

Deuteronomy 1:31: "There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place."

2 Corinthians 6:18: "And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty."

Shakespearean Father's Day quotes

"If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father." - William Shakespeare

"My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!" - William Shakespeare

"To you your father should be as a god, / One that composed your beauties, yea, and one / To whom you are but as a form in wax, / By him imprinted and within his power / To leave the figure or disfigure it." - William Shakespeare

"It is a wise father that knows his own child." - William Shakespeare

"Why, 'tis a happy thing / To be the father unto many sons." - William Shakespeare

"O, that our fathers would applause our loves, / To seal our happiness with their consents!" - William Shakespeare

Moving Father's Day quotes

"Forget Batman. When I really thought about what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wanted to be my dad." - Paul Asay

"You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes." - Wally Schirra

"She did not stand alone, but what stood behind her, the most potent moral force in her life, was the love of her father." - Harper Lee

"A father is neither an anchor to hold us back nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way." - Unknown

"It's only when you grow up and step back from him--or leave him for your own home--it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it." - Margaret Truman

"Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father." - Barack Obama

"A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society." - Billy Graham

"The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family." - Reed Markham

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