As we honor the fathers, grandfathers, stepfathers, and uncles in our lives, here are some inspirational and funny words to live by.

"To be a successful father, there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years." -- Ernest Hemingway

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong." -- Charles Wadsworth

"I'm so ugly, my father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet." -- Rodney Dangerfield

"Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad." -- Proverb

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." -- Mark Twain.

"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is woman he turns her back again." -- Enid Bagnold

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." -- George Herbert

"If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right." -- Bill Cosby

"A father carries pictures where his money used to be." -- Author unknown