What did Abigail Adams mean by: We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. Abigail Adams Former First Lady of the United States · USA Copy
+ My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Abigail Adams, Morality, Religion, Responsibility, 0 Abigail Adams Former First Lady of the United States · USA
+ What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Abigail Adams, Preference, Subjectivity, Taste, 0 Abigail Adams Former First Lady of the United States · USA
+ When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Abigail Adams, Inaction, Uncertainty, Wisdom, 0 Abigail Adams Former First Lady of the United States · USA
+ These are the times when a genius wants to live. Author, November 5, 2023January 2, 2025, Abigail Adams, Creativity, Innovation, Inspiration, 0 Abigail Adams Former First Lady of the United States · USA
+ Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Abigail Adams, Emotion, Relationships, Religion, 0 Abigail Adams Former First Lady of the United States · USA
+ A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Abigail Adams, Appearance, Conformity, Society, 0 Abigail Adams Former First Lady of the United States · USA
+ Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Abigail Adams, Overcoming, Patience, Perseverance, 0 Abigail Adams Former First Lady of the United States · USA
+ I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Abigail Adams, Conviction, Danger, Humanity, 0 Abigail Adams Former First Lady of the United States · USA
The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It’s motive alone which gives character to the actions of men. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones. Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions. Jean Piaget Psychologist · Switzerland
