The 10 Most Popular Quotes For Father's Day

The 10 most popular quotes for father's day, researched and compiled by Don't Quote Me (tm), the exciting new adult board game that keeps players constantly guessing who uttered some of the most memorable lines of our times.)

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

(1917-) U.S. author and artist - works include Views from the Island (1978); art is represented in many museums and private collections.

2. "My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." -- Clarence Budington Kelland

(1881-1964) U.S. writer - credits include the short story Opera Hat which became the story line for the films Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) and Mr. Deeds (2002).

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

(1918-) U.S. evangelist - founded the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in 1950; held weekly Hour of Decision radio program broadcast around the world on Sundays for over 50 years.

4. "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." -- Anne Sexton

(1928-1974) U.S. poet - won Pulitzer Prize for Live or Die in 1967; suffered from a mental illness and committed suicide at age 46.

5. "Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope." -- Bill Cosby

(1937-) U.S. comedian - first African-American to star in a television series, I Spy (1965-68); best known for The Cosby Show (1984-92); also performed at nightclubs and recorded comedy records.

6. "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." -- Mark Twain

(1835-1910), (Samuel Clemens) U.S. author - wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Quote from Old Times on the Mississippi in Atlantic Monthly (1874).

7. "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." -- Henry Ward Beecher

(1813-1887) U.S. clergyman and reformer - Protestant; opposed slavery; advocated women's right to vote; wrote Evolution and Religion (1885).

8. "It is much easier to become a father than to be one." -- Kent Nerburn,

U.S. author and educator - involved in Native American issues; holds a PhD in theology and in art; books include Calm Surrender (2000) and Small Graces (1998). Quote from Letters to My Son: Reflections on Becoming a Man (1994).

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

(1564-1616) English playwright and poet - lived at Stratford-upon-Avon; many of his works performed at The Globe Theater.

10. "Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him
father!" -- Lydia M. Child

(1802-1880) U.S. author - known for her anti-slavery works. Quote from Philothea: A Romance (1836).

The Quotemasters at Don't Quote Me (tm) reviewed thousands of newspaper, magazine and Internet articles and other popular communications vehicles (including talk shows, recent books and radio programs) to cull The 10 Most Popular Quotes for Father's Day. The first annual listing appears above.

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