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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
Gertrude Stein

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
Evelyn Waugh

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
Evelyn Waugh

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

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.
Elizabeth I

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

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

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Jesus Christ

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
Sam Levenson