Emerson Quotes

68 Emerson quotes by 51 unique authors

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on. — James Russell Lowell
Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England,… — Oscar Wilde
This infantile sense of order tended to infect my life at large. Up at 5:30 a.m., coffee, oatmeal, perhaps sausage (homemade), and fresh eggs giving… — Jim Harrison
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldnâ€™t make any sense if quoted as… — Robert Benchley
At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for… — Walt Whitman
More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past. — Robert Penn Warren
In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School. It's on a farm in Vermont, and I read Emerson and Thoreau and… — Nick Kroll
Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate. — Friedrich Nietzsche
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.--Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson
[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking. — Robert D. Richardson
It may be that Emerson is going to hell, but of one thing I am certain; he will change the climate there, and emigration will… — Edward Taylor
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and… — Stephen Leacock
You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes. — David Markson
Even a Menno sheltered from the world knows not to stick her tongue into the mouth of a boy who owns an Air Supply record.… — Miriam Toews
If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson — Barbara Mertz
Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right. — Jim Harrison
Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night,… — Paul Hawken
Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson." "Lake… — Louise Penny

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