If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to [...]
The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales.
Every truth has two sides. It is well to look at both sides before we commit ourselves to either side.
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Appearances often are deceiving.
Little by little does the trick.
We often [...]
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
A boy’s story is [...]
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
To live is to think.
There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
Friends are proved by adversity.
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
It is better to wear out than to rust [...]
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes collection
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Knowledge is the only elegance.
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
What your heart thinks is great, is great.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
The less government we have the better.
The rich mind lies [...]
He’s a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.
Remember that time is money.
God helps them that help themselves.
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Fish and guests smell after three [...]
A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Sanity is a [...]
Freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.
Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.
I will never relent in defending America - whatever it takes.
I just want you to know that, [...]
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.
Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
The world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Rather than [...]
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
Young men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
A small rock holds back a great wave.
How vain, without the merit, is the name.
Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
True friends [...]
A word once uttered can never be recalled.
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one’s country.
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Faults are soon copied.
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
He gains everyone’s approval who mixes the pleasant with the [...]
Never spend your money before you have it.
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
Determine never to be idle…It is wonderful how much may be [...]
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
To do nothing is in everyone’s power.
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
There are charms made only for distant admiration.
It is happier to be sometimes cheated than [...]