Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eleanor Roosevelt

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

Alexander the Great

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Al Roker

I've never been part of anything so great as those three kids.

Dave Barry

The nicest Father's Day surprise of all for Dad would be if you handed him a box, and he unwrapped it, and there, inside, sitting on a bed of folded tissue, was the pair of his undershorts that somebody threw away six months ago (without asking Dad) because they had reached the stage where they were 3 percent undershorts and 97 percent holes. Dad misses those undershorts. They were his Faithful Undershorts Companion.

Dave Barry

Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it's so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying gifts for women. This is an area where many men do not have a clue. Exhibit A was my father, who was a very thoughtful man, but who once gave my mother, on their anniversary, the following token of his love, his commitment, and-yes-his passion for her: an electric blanket.

Bruce Williams

Never love anything that can't love you back.

August Strindberg

That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

Denis Waitley

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

Chief Joseph

My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.

Robert Osborne

I did see 'Gravity,' but I don't have the enthusiasm to go see a movie as often as I used to go.

Donald Wintersgill

Many students marched off in enthusiasm for the front. It was a national hysteria.

Edgar Allan Poe

Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

Elbert Hubbard

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!

Joe Blair

I don't think about that during the season. I will take stock at the end of the year and see what the situation is with the program and see if I still have the enthusiasm for it.

Bob Blackman

I'm always excited to see people respond with such enthusiasm. They love to be part of this.

Rob Kurz

So I don't think we had the same enthusiasm as this year.

Thomas Smith

We played with a lot more enthusiasm today, and we got after it.

Jeff Lindsay

It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.

Arthur C. Clarke

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

Douglas Adams

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

Albert Einstein

Incompetence is the true crisis.

Chris Matthews

All the 'too close to call' announcements are not due to incompetence ... It's caution.

Malcolm Wallop

The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

Laurence J. Peter

Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.

Jimmy Page

My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.