Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Funny
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When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
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People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
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Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.
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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
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Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.
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'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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