Logo
Quote by Henry Adams
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. - Henry

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. – Henry Adams

Other quotes by Henry Adams

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. – Henry Adams

Category:
Politics
Author
Henry Adams
Read Quote

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that its a bore. – Henry Adams

Category:
America
Author
Henry Adams
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Men & Women
category

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them. – Walter Bagehot

Category:
Men & Women

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. – Jane Austen

Category:
Men & Women

If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent. – Italian Proverb

Category:
Men & Women

There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them. – Jane Austen

Category:
Men & Women

Random Quotes

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. – Baltasar Gracian

Category:
Knowledge

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. – Thomas Carlyle

Category:
alone

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. – Henry Ford

Category:
Happiness

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital… the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy. – John F. Kennedy

Category:
strength