Quotes
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.
---Abigail Adams
Indolence is therefore one of the vices from which those whom it once infects are seldom reformed.
---Samuel Johnson
Join or die.
---Revolutionary War Slogan
I generally make it a rule, not to examine the annals of the times further than exactly a page in advance of my own work, hence I am equally interested in the progress of my history, with him who reads it, and equally un-conscious, what occurrence is next to happen.
--- Diedrich Knickerbocker
Proceed, great chief,
with virtue on thy side,
Thy ev'ry action
let the Goddess guide.
A crown, a mansion,
and a throne that shine,
With gold unfading,
WASHINGTON! Be thine.---Phillis Wheatley
As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head.
---The Prophet Obadiah, Old Testament
Liberty and justice for all.
---Revolutionary War Slogan
De appel valt niet ver van de boom.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.---Dutch proverb
Honor could not take away the grief of a wound. Honor has not skill in surgery. Honor is but a word. And what is that word honor? Air.
---William Shakespeare
If thieves came to you, if robbers in the night—oh, what a disaster awaits you— would they not steal only as much as they wanted?
---The Prophet Obadiah, Old Testament
Men moet om een ei geen pannenkoek bederven.
Don’t spoil a pancake for an egg.---Dutch proverb
Ledigheid is des duivels oorkussin.
Idleness is kissing the devil’s ear.---Dutch proverb
...remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
---Abigail Adams
