Posted on 06/17/2012 8:21:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
Sunday, June 17 is Father’s Day. We asked our Fox News anchors and contributors to share the best advice they ever got from their fathers:
Neil Cavuto, senior vice president of Business News and host of "Your World With Neil Cavuto"
The best advice my dad ever gave me was one on humility. Shocking as it might be for some to believe, I was not the best student for a while there. In fact, my grades were so bad, all my Dad would ask is, "Neil, could you try next semester to get a number "in front" of the decimal point" in your grade point average? He would never be alarmed though, seemingly confident that, in time, I'd do OK. Sure enough, as I got my act together and started assembling a career in adult life, he'd come back to remind me, "Remember, son, stay humble. In your case it will come in handy."
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“The World does not owe you a living.” Thanks Dad!
Happy Father’s Day to all the Freeper Dads
MINE TOO!!!! He said it a MILLION. Times!!
Too bad I didn't listen.
Sorry, Dad.
“If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well.”
Still trying, Dad !
Somebody better 'splain the question to Bill; he didn't seem to understand it.
Had a job interview in Law School. Interviewer was a lady. Interview was going nowhere. So she asks me, “Why do you want this job?” I answer, “when I was a kid, my Pop told me, ‘You’re not just another pretty face. You’ll have to work for a living’.”
She responded, “ I resent that!” My patience having long since evaporated and the safety from my brain to my mouth being in the off position, I replied, “Lady, I never said you were goodlooking.” No job.
But the best advice Pop ever gave me was “You play the hand you’re dealt.” With an honorable mention for “If you can’t think of something nice to say about somebody, think of something else.”
On the news - Believe only half of what you read in the newspaper, and only half of that is true.
On going into the army - Keep your eyes and ears open, your mouth shut, and don’t volunteer for nothing.
On life - Always behave as if your Mom was present.
RIP, Dad.
NOW SHUT UP AND LISTEN !!!
“If it’s too good to be true, it probably isn’t.”
“The only thing that is guaranteed in life is death and taxes.”
And my all time favorite from my dad. “If you’re not up, you’re not in.” He is a golfer....
My dad told me never to exaggerate.
He said, “If I’ve told you that once, I’ve told you a million times!!”
This is the truth, ever word!
Never gamble with the rent, you’ll loose every time!
Never mess with a girl that has an big older brother, or a Dad the works for a union. (He didn’t elaborate)
Never tell a girl that you love them unless you want to have her in your life for at least 18 years..
Before you do something that you had to whisper about around the family, think about what could go wrong. The odds are 8 to 5, It will!
Before you ask a girl to marry you, check out the Mother, she is the TREE, your messing with the APPLE..
..and just in case he missed somethin, he looked me in the eye, and added.. S#it HAPPENS!
I never thought much about it much, until I grew up.. He was brilliant!
Also: "Don't believe everything you think."
My dad was hard-core old school.
He never once sat down and gave me any advice, but he did set a heck of an example.
He would say something like: “Did you see how I started that truck yesterday?”
I would give a half-hearted nod.
“Okay, go get it. And I don’t want to hear you grind those gears!”
One time I tried to make an excuse for screwing up:
“But you never told me how.”
He gave me a look that could have scorched the tiles off the space shuttle:
“You watched me do it a hundred times. Didn’t you learn anything?”
After that I not only watched, I concentrated on learning from what I was seeing.
It worked out okay.
Every time I made a goof in the workshop, Dad would say (in German, just for added emphasis) “Twice I cut it off, and it’s still too short.” Still makes me laugh. He had a great way of defusing situations where I was ready to blow. Then there was always “You catch more flies with honey” to explain how to win people over. And he was always ready with “You need that like a hole in the head” when I made some stupid request. God rest his soul. Not a day goes by I don’t think of him.
Keep your mouth shut, and your bowels open.
I’m good on the bowels part, but learned too late to keep my mouth shut...
Thanks Dad.
R.I.P.
What Bill Hemmer meant was that no one other then his dad has ever given him better advice and that his dad was never wrong
I’m an old man now, and I can tell you that you never stop learning..
Two old guys, one 80 and one 87, were sitting on their usual park bench one morning.
The 87 year old had just finished his morning jog and wasn’t even short of breath. The 80 year old was amazed at his friend’s stamina and asked him what he did to have so much energy.
The 87 year old said, “Well, I eat rye bread every day. It keeps your energy level high and you’ll have great stamina with the ladies.”
So, on the way home the 80 year old stops at the bakery. As he was looking around, the lady asked if he needed any help. He said “Do you have any Rye bread?”
She said, “Yes, there’s a whole shelf of it. Would you like some?”
He said, “I want 5 loaves.”
She said, “My goodness, 5 loaves ... By the time you get to the 3rd loaf, it’ll be hard.”
He replied, “I can’t believe it, everybody knows about this shit but me.”
Thanks Dad, RIP *sigh*
“Don’t drink anything that doesn’t come in a bottle with a label you recognize from home.”
also
“There’s nothing wrong with being plain farm people.”
and of course "son, if you show up 15 minutes early to work and sober you'll be ahead of 70% of your competition."
if you do something that keeps you awake at night, don’t do it. He was referring to taxes and making out a return. but it applies to life.
if you do something that keeps you awake at night, don’t do it. He was referring to taxes and making out a return. but it applies to life.
“Work before play.”
Mom: Never start a fight but don't you ever run from one either... Dad: I am not bring you up to be just a sheep that follows the flock....think for yourself...
Also on the ladder of moralty a journaist is one rung below a pimp...A journalist will sell his mother for a good story. A pimp may sell your mother, but never his own..
It difficult situations, Dad would say: perserve your integrity.
Funny story. You’re dad was so right!
“This hurts me more than it hurts you” before I assumed the position for some much deserved swat.
“Don’t trust strange women, and remember, all women are strange as Hell.”
Shake it off and get your ass in gear.
I have a similar one for my sons that your Mom had for you. “Don’t let me catch you starting any fights but if you find yourself in one you better damn well finish it”
Mel
After reading the first one - from Neil Cavuto, I could not help thinking about POTUS’s numbers 42 & 44! Neither had good father figures in their lives, and both are afflicted with excessive narcissism, and amazing abilities to lie their way through any conflicts.
Obama’s blame game is getting mighty tired too. He needs to “Man up”. Without a decent father figure, he’s a failure as a grown-up.
“Treat people well”
“Make your own way in the world”
He loved to read the entire newspaper. One day I was visiting him when he was about 80. He said from behind the open paper, “that’s amazing.”
I said, “what’s amazing.”
He folded the paper shut and solumnly said, “The number of people that die in alphabetical order every day.”
Son, if wine, women and song get to be too much for you, for goodness sake give up singing!
RIP Pop
Even then, in the cae of a pimp, it’s only a rental.
(How'd I do?)
I know “Zweimal” for sure...I should have written it down. My 7th and 8th grade German haven’t stuck very well through the many years, sad to say.
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