Father's Day 2016: Top ten quotes to share with your dad

Father's Day falls on the third Sunday of the June.

Father's Day falls on the third Sunday of the June and this year it is on the 19th. To celebrate the occasion, IBTimes Singapore has hand-picked ten inspirational quotes, to share with your dad.

  • It is a wise father that knows his own child. ― William Shakespeare
  • 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
  • I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. ― Harry S. Truman
  • My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: he believed in me. ― Jim Valvano
  • Before I got married, I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories. ― John Wilmot
  • A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. ― Gabriel García Márquez
  • By the time a man realises that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. ― Charles Wadworth
  • He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ― Clarence Budington Kelland
  • It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. ― Harper Lee
  • A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be. ― Carol Coats