Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.

Gorgias

Family is a transitive property.

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

You're as strong as the Pont Neuf. You'll live to bury us all!

The Guermantes Way

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Howards End

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

The Brook Kerith

Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines.

Blood of the Mantis

In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.

Betsy-Tacy and Tib

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Confucius: The Analects

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Dale Carnegie

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

William James

Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.

Anthony Hecht

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

Bill Cosby

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Charles Caleb Colton

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Clarence Day

Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.

Daisy Ashford

Put me on solid ground and I'll start tapping! At my age they say to keep moving.

Dick Van Dyke

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Don Marquis

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

Erma Bombeck

Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.

Ethel Merman

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Francis Bacon

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

Fred Hoyle