Quotes by Abigail Adams

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest...

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure....

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

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to...

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power,...

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to...

#Caring, #Women

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

#Heroism, #Women

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting...

#Intelligence