Abigail Adams

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

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

Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for

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

What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

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

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to foment a rebellion and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.

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

I hate to complain... No one is without difficulties whether in high or low life and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

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.

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

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.