Henry Brooks Adams Quotes & Quotations

Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

» No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

» Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage

» Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.

» One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

» You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

» A friend in power is a friend lost.

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

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