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A dead father's counsel, a wise son heedeth. -- Esaias Tegner
You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father. -- Sigmund Freud
I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father. -- William Shakespeare
It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children. -- Michel de Montaigne
Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him. -- James M. Barrie
I am no longer haunted by my dead father. I am no longer haunted by childhood home. There's so many things I've cured myself of without realising and now when I'm embark on a project I know I'm going to cure myself of it. -- Guy Maddin
You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.' Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame. -- J.P. Donleavy
To distract myself from thoughts of my father, i decided to check out the dead body. -- Kelley Armstrong
What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead? -- Jess Walter
Hello! Your dear father is unfortunately very dead," he called. "And you said my dispersal system would never work! -- Rachel Caine
The only people I owe an apology to are my dead parents. Except my father because he's still alive. -- Chelsea Handler
EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS NONE. YOUR LUCKY COLOUR IS DEAD. Motto: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON. -- Neil Gaiman
God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven. -- Bill Hybels
Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both. -- Robert Jordan
Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain. -- William Shakespeare
[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off. -- Judith Viorst
I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
Foreigners are sending messages to the planets. We are sending rice and cereals to our dead fore-father through the Brahmins. It is a wise deed? -- Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. -- William Faulkner
When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination. -- Moses Mendelssohn
You don't need a dead father to explain a character's sadness. And impressing yourself with wit/cleverness often feels like what it is - authorial intrusion. -- Mary J. Miller
Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind. -- John Jeremiah Sullivan
Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they'd be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they're clumsy and maladjusted. -- Yasmina Reza
Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches the television. -- Germaine Greer
On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead. -- Helen Hunt Jackson
When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse? -- T.H. White
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind. -- John Jeremiah Sullivan

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