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“Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.”

Father Fool Skins Marrow Skin Deep

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“My father wanted me to play pro football, and he didn't like the fact that I'd left school. And he said, "It takes a man to play football. And any fool can go up on the stage and make an ass of himself.”

Men Said Play Facts Wanted School Father Left Stage Football Fool Ass Pro Football

Author:Bill Cosby

“Empathising with the younger children on whom the same confidence trick was being imposed, I embarked on a crusade around the neighbourhood, telling all the kids that there was no Santa Claus. This reached the ears of the father of a neighbouring family, who reproved me for spoiling it for the little ones. Spoiling it! I could not understand what he meant. To my mind, they were being made fools of, and I was only saving them from this indignity.”

Mind Children Littles Made Kids Father Atheism Fool Ears Positive Atheism Tricks Saving Santa Santa Claus Crusades Indignity Neighbourhoods

Author:Barbara Smoker

“I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.”

Mean Father Fool Idle Boast Nobility Ancestry

Author:James Gates Percival

“If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger, And let not women's weapons, water drops, Stain my man's cheeks.”

Ifs Men Heart Father Water Fool Bears Weapons Daughter Anger Noble Be You Cheeks Stains Touch Me Lear Drop Of Water Fool Me

Book:King Lear

Source: King Lear

“When a father is quick to lose his tempre, his sons are fools.”

Father Loses Son Fool

Author:Nachman of Breslov

“My father believed, like Pericles, that a mans genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.”

Ideas Father Numbers Fool Genius Judged

Author:Thomas Steinbeck

“What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.”

World Children Father Willing Fool Our Children Raises Small Parts

Author:Barack Obama

“In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a clerk, a referee, a clown, a counselor, a dress-code enforcer, a conductor, an apologist, a philosopher, a collaborator, a tap dancer, a politician, a therapist, a fool, a traffic cop, a priest, a mother-father-brother-sister-uncle-aunt, a bookeeper, a critic, a psychologist, the last straw.”

Source: Teacher Man: A Memoir

“She could not bear the thought. She simply could not bear the thought that she might somehow prove to her grandfather that her mother had indeed been a fool and her father had been a damned fool and that she was the damnedest fool of them all.”

Might Mother Father Fool Bears Prove Grandfather

Book:Ten Things I Love About You

Source: Ten Things I Love About You

“That's for calling your father a fool. It may be true, but it's disrespectful. Brian Fraser to teenage Jamie”

May Father Fool Calling Being True Teenage Brian Jamie Disrespectful

Author:Diana Gabaldon