HAPPY RAKENI DAY

This is the perfect time to share some funny quotes that will be sure to get dad laughing. After all, some say that laughter is the best gift in the world. Share some of these funny quotes with dad and I think he’ll agree.

Red Buttons: Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby: Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then, fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher’s mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.

Ernest Hemingway:

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.

Bill Cosby:

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

Phyllis McGinley:

The thing to remember about fathers is... they’re men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat, like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle...

James Baldwin:

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

Peter De Vries:

My father hated radio and he could not wait for television to be invented so that he could hate that too.

Robert Orben:

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

1. “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.” ~ Mark Twain

2. “By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.” ~ Charles Wadsworth

3. “A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be.” ~ Carol Coats

4. “A man’s desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.” ~ Helen Rowland

5. “The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.” ~ Bertrand Russell

6. “A father carries pictures where his money used to be.” ~ Author Unknown

7. “Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough.” ~ Wilhelm Busch