Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Dogs

• Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Pet, Sitting

• Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Motor Racing, Car

• Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Sight, Cynical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.407

• We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse or a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Horse, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, North Atlantic Books

• There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Fashion, Clothes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1958). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

• When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Chasing

• The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves; the man is lost.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Work, Moving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.153, Penguin

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