Father’s Day cards are frustratingly insincere — full of jokes about golf and grilling, they often lack any real sentiment about what the buyer’s father or grandfather is actually like as a person. Worse, many of them are downright insulting, thanks to passive-aggressive comments about Dad’s general uselessness at anything related to the act of parenting.
Fortunately, there’s a growing realization that fathers are important, and that men actually — gasp! — enjoy parenting and strive to be good dads. If you can’t find a a card that really conveys what your father means to you, including one of these 20 quotes inside your card should get the job done. We’ve snuck a few funny ones among our selection too, but they all get at the heart of the joy of fatherhood and the rewards of being the child of a great dad.
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