Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
Henry Adams
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Henry Adams
Age: 80 †
Born: 1838
Born: February 16
Died: 1918
Died: March 27
Historian
Historian Of The Modern Age
Journalist
Mathematician
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Frances Snow Compton
Henry Adams
Years
Remain
Schoolmaster
Men
However
Senator
Politics
Priest
Strong
Senators
Else
Priests
Political
Ten
Reality
Serve
Anything
Fit
Stiffness
More quotes by Henry Adams
The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which still remained free. The woman's slavery was assumed to be for life.
Henry Adams
I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well.
Henry Adams
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
Henry Adams
Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.
Henry Adams
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.
Henry Adams
We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.
Henry Adams
My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.
Henry Adams
Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.
Henry Adams
I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.
Henry Adams
History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.
Henry Adams
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Henry Adams
During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.
Henry Adams
The world is coming to an end in 1950.
Henry Adams
One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible.
Henry Adams
For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that Icare. Only, if such is God's will, and Fate and Evolution--let there be God!
Henry Adams
All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people
Henry Adams
To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing of new life into existence the other, educating it after it is brought in. All betrayals of trust result from these original sins.
Henry Adams
If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.
Henry Adams
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
Henry Adams
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.
Henry Adams
