34. The child is the father of the man.—Wordsworth.
35. The child has a red tongue like its father.
36. The Devil's child, the Devil's luck.
37. The father can no more destroy his son than the cloud can extinguish by water the lightning which precedes from itself.—Raghuvansa.
38. The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.—Bible.
39. The glory of children are their fathers.—Bible.
40. The gods do not avenge on the son the misdeeds of the father. Each, good or bad, reaps the just reward of his own actions. The blessing of the parents, not their curse, is inherited.—Goethe.
41. The ungrateful son is a wart on his father's face; to leave it is a blemish, to cut it a pain.—Afghan.
42. The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity.—Jean Paul.
43. To a father, who is growing old, there is nothing dearer than a daughter.—Euripides.