66 ordspråk av Henry Brooks Adams

Henry Brooks Adams

Henry Brooks Adams

Henry Brooks Adams föddes den 16 februar 1838 och dog den 27 marts 1918 - amerikansk författare
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You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

Morality is a private and costly luxury

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people

A friend in power is a friend lost.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Even in America, 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

Morality is a private and costly luxury

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean

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

Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems

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

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin

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