The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free i...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certai...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought i...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of iner...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the morning of the last Sunday of Octob...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of ine...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends b...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends b...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Morality is a private and costly luxury
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, whereve...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Morality is a private and costly luxury.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Chaos results when the world changes faster than people
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherev...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS It is always good men who do the most harm in the world
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Friends are born, not made.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Even in America, the Indian summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the seaso...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide b...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Words were with them forms of expression which varied with individuals, but falsehood was more or le...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Intimates are predestined
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certai...
BROOKS ADAMS The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by fi...
BROOKS ADAMS Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hat...
BROOKS ADAMS Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.
HENRY ADAMS In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he alrea...
HENRY ADAMS Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free i...
HENRY ADAMS The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to ...
HENRY ADAMS Morality is a private and costly luxury
HENRY ADAMS A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
HENRY ADAMS Intimates are predestined
HENRY ADAMS Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit
HENRY ADAMS In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
HENRY ADAMS Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
HENRY ADAMS Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.
HENRY ADAMS Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of ha...
HENRY ADAMS I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined...
HENRY ADAMS You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a stea...
HENRY ADAMS Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of fact...
HENRY ADAMS Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of in...
HENRY ADAMS Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
HENRY ADAMS One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certai...
HENRY ADAMS Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, whereve...
HENRY ADAMS Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent exci...
HENRY ADAMS A friend in power is a friend lost.
HENRY ADAMS It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.
HENRY ADAMS Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of ha...
HENRY ADAMS Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
HENRY ADAMS Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more a...
HENRY ADAMS A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
HENRY ADAMS Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
HENRY ADAMS No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ...
HENRY ADAMS The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
HENRY ADAMS In the one branch he most needed
HENRY ADAMS Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free i...
HENRY ADAMS They know enough who know how to learn.
HENRY ADAMS No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it...
HENRY ADAMS The proper study of mankind is woman.
HENRY ADAMS Morality is a private and costly luxury.
HENRY ADAMS Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of iner...
HENRY ADAMS Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
HENRY ADAMS As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly de...
HENRY ADAMS The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite i...
HENRY ADAMS Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherev...
HENRY ADAMS No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ...
HENRY ADAMS The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends b...
HENRY ADAMS Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
HENRY ADAMS Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
HENRY ADAMS It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
HENRY ADAMS He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
HENRY ADAMS The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset D...
HENRY ADAMS Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, p...
HENRY ADAMS Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
HENRY ADAMS Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
HENRY ADAMS Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of ha...
HENRY ADAMS Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide b...
HENRY ADAMS All experience is an arch, to build upon.
HENRY ADAMS Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
HENRY ADAMS Friends are born, not made.
HENRY ADAMS These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own i...
HENRY ADAMS There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
HENRY ADAMS Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
HENRY ADAMS American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anyth...
HENRY ADAMS The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a cou...
HENRY ADAMS Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance as it accumulates in the form of i...
HENRY ADAMS No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ...
HENRY ADAMS No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about hi...
HENRY ADAMS I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not ...
HENRY ADAMS It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
HENRY ADAMS American society is sort of a flat fresh water pond, which absorbs silently, without reaction, anyth...
HENRY ADAMS A teacher affects eternity.
HENRY ADAMS Charles Francis Adams was singular for mental poise — absence of self-assertion or self-consciousn...
HENRY ADAMS A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. ...
HENRY ADAMS The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taugh...
HENRY ADAMS Intimates are predestined.
HENRY ADAMS For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was - a chaos of anarc...
HENRY ADAMS A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in t...
HENRY ADAMS I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a wo...
HENRY ADAMS the problem of life was as simple as it was classic. Politics offered no difficulties, for there the...
HENRY ADAMS Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden...
HENRY ADAMS No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for ...
HENRY ADAMS The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a ...
HENRY ADAMS I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined t...
HENRY ADAMS This is way beyond expectations. We've got the second best golfer in the state at Aspen High School,...
HENRY ADAMS I was interested in politics, thought I had good speaking abilities. I talked with Mr. Oliver about ...
HENRY ADAMS Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.
HENRY ADAMS Everyone must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how thei...
HENRY ADAMS A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.
HENRY B. ADAMS Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
HENRY B. ADAMS He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
HENRY B. ADAMS Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
MEL BROOKS Immortality is a by-product of good work.
MEL BROOKS If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKS Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKS You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one...
HERB BROOKS You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.
HERB BROOKS Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
TERRY BROOKS What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, i...
ALBERT BROOKS I can take the steel guitars and fiddles off, we can make it a little more pop, cover ideas that are...
GARTH BROOKS Meditate on the unique relationship between Christians. Psalm 133:1 proclaims the goodness and pleas...
THOMAS BROOKS #4. Spend more time considering areas of agreement than disagreement. The doctrines you share with o...
THOMAS BROOKS It has to be Champ Bailey. His ball skills are outstanding. He can break on the ball. He can re-dire...
AARON BROOKS Unfortunately, it's our new home, temporarily, ... We're going to have to accept that and be as comf...
AARON BROOKS I had my house phone always forwarding to my cell phone, anyway, ... I thought: Eliminate the middle...
AARON BROOKS As a football team, we're not looking for any handouts. We'll band together as a team. We want to go...
AARON BROOKS We couldn't believe that this was going on where we live, ... It's weighing heavily on our hearts an...
AARON BROOKS As a football team, we're not looking for any handouts, ... We know it's going to be difficult, we k...
AARON BROOKS We couldn't believe that this was going on where we live. It's weighing heavily on our hearts and mi...
AARON BROOKS The Civil War is a big game. Regardless of the records going into the game, it's definitely going to...
AARON BROOKS Some of the families weren't able to make it out because a lot of airlines cancelled flights. Famili...
AARON BROOKS Ray Lewis, Ed Reed — you look at what they accomplished last year a...
AARON BROOKS I had wanted to be a Calvin Klein model since I was 17. Marky Mark in his Calvin Kleins was the epit...
MEHCAD BROOKS I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at m...
RODNEY BROOKS Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city&#...
GERALDINE BROOKS Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before -- comedy...
ALBERT BROOKS When we spoke, he told me, 'The Newsweek thing has changed the world.' And I said, 'Wasn't it 9/11 t...
ALBERT BROOKS I was allowed to film in the biggest mosque in India and when I told the imam the plot of the movie ...
ALBERT BROOKS Fear is playing a major part in Hollywood production,
ALBERT BROOKS If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
ALBERT BROOKS I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.
ALBERT BROOKS I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of ...
ALBERT BROOKS I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'
ALBERT BROOKS Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a ma...
ALBERT BROOKS When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed...
ALBERT BROOKS Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
GARTH BROOKS Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently wh...
GARTH BROOKS I'm much too young to feel this damn old.
GARTH BROOKS I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and g...
GARTH BROOKS It's the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become ...
GARTH BROOKS People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.
GARTH BROOKS You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
GARTH BROOKS I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
GARTH BROOKS I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being abl...
GARTH BROOKS Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on o...
GARTH BROOKS Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
GARTH BROOKS You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.
GARTH BROOKS Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
GARTH BROOKS Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
GARTH BROOKS You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.
GARTH BROOKS True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
GARTH BROOKS I just love to see people having a good time.
GARTH BROOKS Truth is mighty and will prevail. [Lat., Magna est veritas et praevalebit.]
THOMAS BROOKS He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
THOMAS BROOKS