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



"It is a wise father that knows his own child." - William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice



"Full fathom five thy father lies; Or his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange." -William Shakepeare: The Tempest



"Polite Conversation 'Tis happy for him, that his father was before him." - Jonathon Swift



"The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it." - Dylan Thomas (of Wales)