John Quincy Adams Famous Quotes
Patience and perserverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
"Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
John Quincy Adams Quotations
If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter.
Henry Elliot
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
Agatha Christie
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
Thorstein Veblen
The true science and study of man is man.
Pierre Charron
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
Frank Moore Colby
"Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief."
Publilius Syrus
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Susanna Moodie
"When I feel bad, I work. When I have problems, when I'm depressed, when I'm bored with life, I sit down to my work. There are probably other prescriptions, but I don't know them. Or they don't work for me. You want my advice -- here it is Go and work. Thank God that people like you and me need only paper and pencil to work."
Strugatsky
Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.
J G Gallimore
All of his saves have come in relief appearances
Ralph Kiner