“A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”
Variant: A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man
Source: The Godfather
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“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 5.

“A man should never neglect his family for business.”
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“How many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see?”
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Blowin' in the Wind

Bert Williams, The comic side of trouble, January 1918, American Magazine 85, 33-34, 58-60. Quoted in From traveling show to vaudeville: theatrical spectacle in America, 1830-1910, 2003, Robert M. Lewis, JHU Press, ISBN 0801870879.
"The Individual and Political Life of Information Systems", in Heilprin, Markuson, and Goodman, ed., Proceedings of the Symposium on Education for Information Science, Warrenton, Virginia, September 7-10, 1965 (Washington, DC: Spartan Books, 1965)

“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”