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:

    “I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had to hailbomb, for twelve hours, and when it was all over I walked up.... We didn’t find one of ‘em, not one stinking dink
    body. That smell, you know, that gasoline smell. The whole hill. It smelled like ... victory.”
    —John Milius, U.S. screenwriter, Francis Ford Coppola (b. 1939)

    “What a vast fraternity it is,—that of ‘Hearts that Ache.’ For the last three months it has seemed to me as though all society were coming to me, to drop its mask for a moment and initiate me into the mystery. How we do suffer! And we go on laughing; for, as a practical joke at our expense, life is a success.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)