"By becoming more unhappy we sometimes learn how to be less so."
- Madame Swetchine
"America should care more for its poor and reform itself in other ways but even if it won't do those things it remains the least constrained society on earth."
- Robert M. Adams
"The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs and never care how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall."
- Thomas Adams
"He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy."
- George Matthew Adams
"Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net."
- Franklin Pierce Adams
"One must choose in life between boredom and suffering."
- Madame de Stael
"Then here's to the City of Boston The town of the cries and the groans Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotschniks And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns."
- Franklin P. Adams
"Christmas is over and Business is Business."
"People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices."
- Adam Smith
"By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affecte..."