Henry Brooks Adams Quotes - Famous Quotations and Funny Sayings

"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
Benjamin Franklin &bull Sleep

"How excellent it is to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use like a giant."
William Shakespeare &bull Strength

"Pressed into service means pressed out of shape."
Robert Frost &bull Draft

"The man who really wants to do something finds a way, the other finds an excuse."
Unknown Source &bull Desire

"Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed."
Lord Chesterfield &bull Failure

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(1838-1918) American historian, journalist and novelist.

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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

They know enough who know how to learn.

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