Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Age Quotes, Funny Quotes

Night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.

Night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.

We change, whether we like it or not.

We change, whether we like it or not.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old...

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old...

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of...

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of...

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Fame is proof that people are gullible

Fame is proof that people are gullible

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go...

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go...

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul

I can find my biography in every fable that I read

I can find my biography in every fable that I read

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some...

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some...

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always...

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always...