Perhaps the crusty old buzzard loved his only child more than anyone had given him credit for all these years — maybe even more than he himself had realized.

1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 142,
An old man’s shadow is better than a young buzzard’s sword.

It is common, to a proverb, to call one who can not be taught, or who continues obstinately ignorant, a buzzard.

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