Quotes
Quotes - Adams
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
This is the last of earth! I am content.
Great necessities call forth great leaders. -Abigail Adams.
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and Everything . . . [is] Forty-two.
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
Life is wasted on the living.
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
Success has made failures of many men.
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.
