Ralph Waldo Emerson Funny Quotes

• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

• Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

• The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Friendship, Prayer

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions”

• When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Communication, Humor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.410

• Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.260, Library of America

• People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Sarcastic, Writing

  "Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843".

• Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Men, Insanity

  Journals

• We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Book, Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1959). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

• 'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Humor, Special

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.135

• No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Humorous, Names

• Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Beauty, Humor

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