Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
“It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed...the habits… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past away since… — Abigail Adams Copy Share
Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands. — Abigail Adams Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons. — Abigail Adams Copy Share
To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words. — Abigail Adams Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world. — Abigail Adams Copy Share
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have… — Abigail Adams Copy Share
