dad joke

one-liner

is responsible for unveiling the uspoken secret of the father in his person; for what was silent in the father speaks in the son.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. - Friedrich Nietzsche

is always possessed of a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. - Aldous Huxley

What is the son but an extension of the father' Frank Herbert

Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale.

is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he list.

A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he list. Ivan Turgenev

is that in which what was silent in the father speaks. One finds in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

is one who does not dread his father's anger but his silence.

It is not a father's anger but silence that a son dreads.