SON

Related Subject: Family

1. A wise son maketh a glad father.—Bible, Proverbs 10:1
   

2. And all to leave what with his toil he won
   To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.—DRYDEN, Absalom & Achitophel
   

3. Gods! How the son degenerates from the sire!—HOMER, Iliad
   

4. Your work was waste? Maybe your share
   Lay in the hour you laughed and kissed;
   Who knows but that your son shall wear
   The laurels that his father missed?—LAURENCE HOPE, The Masters
   

5. He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.—GOLDONI, Pamela
   

6. He that has but one hog, makes him fat, and he that has but one son, makes him a fool.—Proverb
   

7. Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.—SHAKESPEARE, Coriolanus
   

8. That thou art my son, I have partly thy mother's word, partly my own opinion, but chiefly a villainous trick of thine eye and a foolish hanging of thy nether lip, that doth warrant me.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
   

9. A wayward son, spiteful and wrathful.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
   

10. The boy was the very staff of my age, my very prop.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice