Ralph Waldo Emerson

(112 votes)   There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, ''Anywhere but here.''

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(111 votes)   He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(110 votes)   Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(110 votes)   Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(110 votes)   Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(109 votes)   'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(109 votes)   The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(109 votes)   The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(109 votes)   This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(108 votes)   Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(108 votes)   He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(108 votes)   Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(108 votes)   The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(108 votes)   There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website

(107 votes)   For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Rate this quote: (bad)<> (good)
copy to your blog, myspace, or website