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There are ten or twenty basic truths, and life is the process of
discovering them over and over and over.
 Emerson
Well begun is half done.
 Emerson
An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes
we cannot bear to look out of, we blind them as quickly as possible.
 Emerson
Ralph Waldo
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
 Emerson
Ralph Waldo
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it
were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
 Emerson
Ralph Waldo
In every hierarchy the cream rises until it sours.
 Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
 Emerson
Ralph Waldo
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
 Emerson
Ralph Waldo
I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some
kind of loophole.
 Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
 Emerson
Ralph Waldo
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
 Emerson
Ralph Waldo
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
 Emerson
Ralph Waldo
If a man stay away from his wife for seven years, the law presumes the
separation to have killed him; yet according to our daily experience,
it might well prolong his life.
 Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Knowledge is power.
 Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest
way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
 Fosdick
Harry Emerson
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Random Quote
... why should you waste a single moment of *your* life seeming to be something
you don't want to be? Lord, that's so simple. If you hate your job, quit it.
If your friends are tedious, go out and find new friends. You are queer, you
lucky fool, a Carlevale
Edmund
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