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The proper study of mankind is woman.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about woman

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about bad, woman, man

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about intelligence, things

They know enough who know how to learn.

Quote by Henry B. Adams

Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about problems

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about obstacles, order

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about youth, moment

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

Quote by Henry B. Adams about tact, use, contentment

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about man

Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.

Quote by Peter Fonda about shadow

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.

Quote by Peter Fonda about actors, writers, knowledge, work

Nobody's that cool. It was just a character I made up. I was more along the lines of, Acting must be in the genes, and Who the hell is Henry Fonda?

Quote by Peter Fonda about hell, character

People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday.

Quote by Peter Fonda about time, people

There is that backlog of talent: Henry and Jane. Considering that, considering them, this business requires incredible strength. I must not get tripped up by a comparative attitude.

Quote by Peter Fonda about attitude, affair, talent

Culture is rougly anything else we do and the monkeys don't.

Quote by Lord Raglan about culture

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about nothing

At age nine I began serving long stints in juvenile detention quarters. At age twelve I was sent to the Utah State Industrial School For Boys... at age eighteen I was released as an adult.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about prison, age, olderness, school, state

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about insects, suffering

How would you like to be forced all the days of your life to sit beside a stinking, stupid wino every morning at breakfast?

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about day, life, contentment

I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine and a half months.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about old, olderness, moment