Fall Quote by Abigail Adams

How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations…

— Abigail Adams

I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.

— Abigail Adams

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose…

— Abigail Adams

You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past away since…

— Abigail Adams

Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

— Abigail Adams

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

— Abigail Adams

The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in…

— Abigail Adams

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

— Abigail Adams

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

— Abigail Adams

What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.

— Abigail Adams

What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would…

— Abigail Adams

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the…

— Abigail Adams