One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
一位好父亲强于一百个校长。
~ 17th century English proverb
Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
任何人都可当父亲,但不是人人都能成为好爸爸。
~ Anonymous
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
爸爸总是尽力让自己的小孩像是一个女人。当她真的成为一个女人后，他又想把她变回小孩。（女儿小的时候，教她礼仪、做人的道理等，让她成熟，认识生活和世界，培养她。孩子大了，什么都懂了，完全成熟了以后，此处有两种理解，一种可能是爸爸还是喜欢像照顾和教导小孩那样对她，忘记她已经是大人了，不需要这样了。另一种可能是爸爸看到女儿的成熟、世俗、甚至狡诈，希望她变回纯真一些。）
~ Enid Bagnold
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
常常听听孩子温和的叫声,就是对父亲真正的祝福.（常常虔诚地呼唤天父的人，这个人有福了，这个人真正地得到保佑了。）
~ Lydia M. Child
A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be.
父亲，就是期望自己的孩子能像他原先打算成为那么好的那个人。
~ Carol Coats
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
不能教导儿子负责的父亲和不能履行职责的儿子一样有过错。（子不教，父之过 ）
I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.' -- Margo Kaufman
我曾经向父亲倾诉说我无法像其他人一样做事。爸爸的回答是：孩子，别当绵羊，人不喜欢羊，他们吃羊。
"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." -- Anne Sexton
爸爸是什么样的人并不重要，重要的是我心目的爸爸是什么样的人。-- 安妮-赛克顿
"That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all." -- J. August Strindberg
这就是父亲在家中费力不讨好的地方 -- 既要养活全家，又受全家敌视。
“A man knows when he is growing old,because he begins to look like his father.” -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
一个男人发现他在变老，因为他开始像他的父亲。-- 加布里埃尔.加西亚.马尔克斯
To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. -- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
做成功父亲的必由之路：当你有了孩子，头两年不要看他。-- 海明威 (1899 - 1961)
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
一个父亲可以对孩子们所做的最重要的事情就是去爱孩子们的母亲。
My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies. -- Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
我爸曾这样告诫我：说话前要字斟句酌，要么有深度，要么有幽默。要是在现实生活中做不到，那就去演电影吧。在电影里演这样一个有深度有幽默的人，也能挣不少钱。
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." -- Sigmund Freud
我想象不出还有什么比父亲的保护更让一个孩子渴求得强烈。-- 西格蒙特-佛洛依德
“It is a wise father that knows his own child ” -- William Shakespeare
了解自己孩子的父亲是明智的父亲 -- 威廉.莎士比亚
"I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example." -- Mario Cuomo
我看到一个小个子男人，双手长满了老茧，每天工作十五六个小时。我曾经见到，按照字面意思理解，鲜血从他的脚底流出，这个男人来到这里，没有受过教育，孤零零一个人，不会说英语，就是这个男人，单单以他的言行教会了我所需要知道的一切，关于信念，关于辛苦劳作。-- 马里奥-库莫
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