Dad (n.) earned his clown image by falling for the hoax that work is just something you do to make money, and money gets you anything.
A Dad (n.) is like a lighthouse, ignored in good weather and the entire subject in bad.
A Dad (n.) is graded on a curve so generous that showing up reads as devotion.
A Dad (n.) learns to fix things so his children will always have someone to call.
A Father-in-law (n.) shakes your hand at the wedding like a man signing for a delivery.
A Father-in-law (n.) shows affection by explaining your own car to you.
A Father-in-law (n.) is the man whose approval still rents space in the marriage.
A Father-in-law (n.) is a man you will discuss routes and roadworks with for twenty years.
Old man (n.) worth admiring has something of a young man in him; he may grow old in body, but in mind he never will.
Old man (n.) is never so old as to think he may not live another year.
An Old man (n.) is treated as harmless right up until the moment he is in charge of something.
An Old man (n.) has the same opinions he had at thirty and far fewer people to try them on.
The Primal father (n.) forced his sons into abstinence and so into tender ties with one another; his sexual jealousy was the origin of group psychology.
The Primal father (n.) loved no one but himself, needed no one's backing, and was the superman Nietzsche expected only from the future.
The Primal father (n.) once dead became stronger than the living one had been.
The Primal father (n.) was violent and jealous, keeping all the females for himself and driving away his sons as they grew up.