When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
William Shakespeare

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
Robert Frost

My son is now an "entrepreneur." That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
Ted Turner

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Saint Augustine

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
Voltaire

Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Douglas MacArthur

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it's feet first!
Henny Youngman

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.
James A. Baldwin

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
Jean-Paul Sartre

If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
Bobby Knight

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard Shaw

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
Rudyard Kipling

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
Chanakya

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
Andrew Carnegie

If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
Vance Havner

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds actually wasn't meant to say LSD. It was a drawing that John's son brought home from school. Lucy was a kid in his school.
Paul McCartney

You know what they should call this war - Son of Bush vs. Son of a Bitch.
Jay Leno

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Gilbert K. Chesterton