All Henry Adams Quotes
- Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies,… Allah
- All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people Afflict
- As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome.… Absolutely
- His brothers were the type; he was the variation. Brother
- A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming… Becoming
- The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt. Adored
- I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that… All
- Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most… Cases
- In the one branch he most needed Branch
- The proper study of mankind is woman. Humanity
- The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. Gender
- Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy. All
- The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself. Apt
- It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants. Any
- The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society. Capacity
- Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still. Cannot Stop
- Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting. Become Critical
- My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my… Answer
- If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow. Inspirational
- Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed,… Afford
- The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance. Expect
- Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue. Funny
- Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but… Afterwards
- Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius. Force
- Intimates are predestined. Funny