"Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish."

Ovid on opportunity   

"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."

Larson, Doug on importance
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"If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride."

Horton, Doug on wish and wishing
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"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton on action
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"We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so."

Pope, Alexander on fathers and sons   

"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."

Freud, Sigmund on fathers
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"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."

Valvano, Jim on belief   

"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia on fathers
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"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."

Hesburgh, Theodore M. on fathers
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"Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!"

Child, Lydia M. on fathers
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"What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father."

Dodge, Mary Mapes on fathers   

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"The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat -- like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I it took such months to get."

Mcginley, Phyllis on fathers   

"He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. [Exodus 21:17]"

Bible on parents and parenting
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"There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson."

Hugo, Victor on fathers
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"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."

Frost, Robert on parents and parenting
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"When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."

Twain, Mark on ignorance
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"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity."

Richter, Jean Paul on influence   

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"When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?"

Levenson, Samuel on freedom
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"It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all."

Walker, Alice on fathers   

"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."

Iacocca, Lee on friends and friendship
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"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."

Wadworth, Charles on fathers and sons   

"All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago."

Kipling, Rudyard on freedom   

"If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him!If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for himspeak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. "

Hubbard, Elbert on uncategorised
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"You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these."

Francis, Clarence on character
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"Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon."

Butler, Samuel on loyalty
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"No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on self-respect
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"Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living."

Royce, Josiah on loyalty
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