"Love is one of those jokes you have…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Love is one of those jokes you have to be there to get."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
— Aristotle
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If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
— Lance Armstrong
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't…
— Jensen Ackles
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As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.
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The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.
— Ronnie Barker
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I try to do women's-point-of-view comedy. The joke is, 'This is what I think; there's the truth.' I try to…
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard…
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Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and…
— James M. Barrie
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In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.
— Lynda Barry
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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
— Arnold Bennett
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