Thomas Adams Quotes

Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.

He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.

The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.

Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but do not narrow the tenements behind. Dignify the city by all means, but not at the expense of the health of the home and the family life and the comfort of the average workman and citizen.