A friend in power is a friend lost.

Quote by Henry Brooks Adams

Topics: Friendship Quotes, Love Quotes

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of...

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of...

Morality is a private and costly luxury

Morality is a private and costly luxury

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

They know enough who know how to learn.

They know enough who know how to learn.

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take...

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take...

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks...

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks...

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate...

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate...

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe,...

Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe,...

I can't make it in today. My iguana is in a beauty pageant today.

I can't make it in today. My iguana is in a beauty pageant today.