Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

- Abigail Adams

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

- Abigail Adams

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 th…

- Abigail Adams

The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.

- Abigail Adams

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

- Abigail Adams

I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.

- Abigail Adams

A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obli…

- Abigail Adams

I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the han…

- Abigail Adams

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

- Abigail Adams