"I once saw a pin on a Delta Airlines employee and I asked him what the letters in Delta stand for. He said "Don't Expect Luggage To Arrive.""
- Adam Christing
"The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held."
- Jane Adams
"While the work or play is on ... don't constantly feel you ought to be doing the other."
- Franklin P. Adams
"Every man in it is a great man an orator a critic a statesman and therefore every man upon every question must show his oratory his criticism and his political abilities."
- John Adams
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
- John Quincy Adams
"Henry James chews more than he bites off."
- Mrs. Henry Adams
"Rules of society are nothing one's conscience is the umpire."
- Madame Dudevant
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."
- Henry Adams
"Enthusiasm signifies God in us."
- Madame de Stael