Famous quotes containing the words brooks adams, henry, brooks and/or adams:
“My idea is that the world outside—the so-called modern world—can only pervert and degrade the conceptions of the primitive instinct of art and feeling, and that our only chance is to accept the limited number of survivors—the one- in-a-thousand of born artists and poets—and to intensify the energy of feeling within that radiant centre.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one’s life with due thought for the morrow because no man can be sure he will alive an hour hence.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“What a hot theopathy
Roisters through her, gnaws the walls....”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Too much Truth
Is uncouth.”
—Franklin Pierce Adams (1881–1960)