Euripides Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

  Euripides

  Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

• Noble fathers have noble children.

  Euripides

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

• Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

  Euripides

  Fathers Day, Children, Disappointment

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

• For the weariest road that man may wend
  Is forth fromn the home of his father.

  Euripides

  Father, Home, Men

• Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.

  Euripides

  Daughter, Children, Pain

  Euripides (2007). “The Plays of Euripides”, p.305, Wildside Press LLC

• To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness.

  Euripides

  Daughter, Father, Son

  Euripides (1823). “The Tragedies of Euripides”, p.378

• To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.

  Euripides

  Daughter, Sweet, Father

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.180, University of Chicago Press

• The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

  Euripides

  Children, Father, Sin

  "Phrixus". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 416 BCE.

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