Quote

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Abigail Adams

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Abigail Adams
Age: 73 †
Born: 1744
Born: November 22
Died: 1818
Died: October 28
First Lady
Politician
Weymouth
Massachusetts
Abigail Smith
Abigail Smith Adams
Language
Culture
Correspond
Action
Sounding
Political
Diversity
Many
Actions
Communication
High
Words

More quotes by Abigail Adams

Image
The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
Abigail Adams
Image
What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
Abigail Adams
Image
My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
Abigail Adams
Image
I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
Abigail Adams
Image
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
Abigail Adams
Image
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail Adams
Image
Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
Abigail Adams
Image
What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.
Abigail Adams
Image
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Abigail Adams
Image
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams
Image
To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
Abigail Adams
Image
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
Abigail Adams
Image
It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure, some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
Abigail Adams
Image
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
Abigail Adams
Image
Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
Abigail Adams
Image
When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
Abigail Adams
Image
A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
Abigail Adams
Image
But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
Abigail Adams
Image
A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
Abigail Adams
Image
posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
Abigail Adams