"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." -- English Proverb

　　1个爸爸比100个校长还顶用。-- 英国谚语

　　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 www.170xue.com

　　Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't. -- L. L. Henderson

　　父亲希望儿子上大学无外乎两个理由：(1)自己上过大学;(2)自己没有上过大学。

　　"A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. -Marlene Dietrich

　　一个认识到自己不称职的国王，可以委托授权或干脆放弃。一个父亲却被无选择。-- 玛莲娜-迪特里希

　　When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. -- 犹太谚语

　　当爸爸向儿子付出时，两人都在笑;当儿子向爸爸付出时，两人都在哭。

　　Son: How much does it cost to get married, Dad? Father: I don't know son, I'm still paying for it”

　　儿子：老爸，结婚的成本到底多大?爸爸：不知道，儿子。我还在付钱呢。

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

　　当一个男人终于认识到他老爸也许说的不错时，往往他已经有了个儿子，而且这个儿子认为他爸什么都不对。

　　4 years: My Daddy can do anything!

　　4岁：爸爸什么都会

　　7 years: My Dad knows a lot…a whole lot.

　　7岁：爸爸懂得挺多，真挺多

　　8 years: My father does not know quite everything.

　　8岁：爸爸也不是懂得那么多

　　12 years: Oh well, naturally Father does not know that either.

　　12岁：哦，这个吗，爸爸肯定不懂

　　14 years: Oh, Father? He is hopelessly old-fashioned.

　　14岁：唉，老爸?他实在是太老派了

　　21 years: Oh, that man-he is out of date!

　　21岁：哦，那老人已经落伍了

　　25 years: He knows a little bit about it, but not much.

　　25岁：他懂点，但不是太多

　　30 years: I must find out what Dad thinks about it.

　　30岁：我必须问问老爸看他怎么想

　　35 years: Before we decide, we will get Dad's idea first.

　　35岁：在做决定之前，先问问老爸的意见

　　50 years: What would Dad have thought about that?

　　50岁：要是老爸还在，他会怎么看这件事呢

　　60 years: My Dad knew literally everything!

　　60岁：我爸几乎什么都明白

　　65 years: I wish I could talk it over with Dad once more.

　　65岁：我真想再有机会和爸爸说话