Francis Adams

Francis Adams is the name of:

  • Francis Adams (translator) (1796–1861), Scottish medical doctor and translator of Greek medical works
  • Francis Adams (writer) (1862–1893), English essayist, poet, dramatist, novelist and journalist
  • Francis Adams (athlete) (1953–1987), sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago
  • Francis Colburn Adams, American miscellaneous writer

Famous quotes containing the words francis and/or adams:

    “The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife.”
    —St. Francis De Sales (1567–1622)

    “America had no use for Adams because he was eighteenth-century, and yet it worshipped Grant because he was archaic and should have lived in a cave and worn skins.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)