Great Quotes - Funny Quotes - Love Quotes
Be inspired by our amazing collection of free proverbs, sayings and great quotes by famous artists, authors, writers, poets, philosophers and business people. The quotation database contains over 150,000 funny quotes, love quotes and motivational quotes that will do for any occasion. The database is constantly updated with new quotes, proverbs and sayings. Make sure to check our quotes regularly.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
Browse Authors:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the authors)
Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
(Click a letter to view the authors)
«Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.»
«Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.»
«We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.»
«Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.»
«New arts destroy the old.»
«Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?»
«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.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
philanthropist, philanthropists, The Philanthropist
«What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.»
«That which builds is better than that which is built.»
«The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.»
Sign up for the most comprehensive database of 800,000 pre-written papers and use them for your research. Order authentic term papers, essays, research papers, dissertations on any topic written by qualified writers.
