Father’s Day Quotes – Understanding Dad’s Wisdom
It’s interesting that only age makes a dad sound sensible.
Personally, it took me half my life to figure out why my dad was the distant old geezer that he was, and that he really did love us. Working 60 hours a week was just his way of showing love by “taking care of business”. Some people learn faster.
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 the old man had learned in seven years.
- Author Unknown
That quote above is often attributed to Mark Twain, but apparently there’s nothing to back up that assertion.
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.
-Charles Wadsworth