Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) American Journalist, Historian, Academic, Novelist

These Henry Brooks Adams quotes and sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. - Henry Brooks Adams


A friend in power is a friend lost. - Henry Brooks Adams


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


Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. - Henry Brooks Adams


No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. - Henry Brooks Adams


Morality is a private and costly luxury. - Henry Brooks Adams


Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. - Henry Brooks Adams


What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn. - Henry Brooks Adams


The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. - Henry Brooks Adams