Logo
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of a

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Plato; Or, The Philosopher”

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Quotations
category

…the curious hunter-up of rare quotations… the young and struggling scribbler… – William Francis Henry King, “Introduction,” Classical and Foreign Quotations, 18

Category:
Quotations

A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste. – Chaning, quoted in Sayings: Proverbs, Maxims, Mottoes by Charles F. Schutz, 1915

Category:
Quotations

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Quotation and Originality,” Letters and Social Aims, 1876

Category:
Quotations

The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them. – Gary Saul Morson, “Bakhtin, The Genres of Quotation, and The Aphoristic Consciou

Category:
Quotations

Random Quotes

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. – Zig Ziglar

Category:
Failure

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. – Jim Rohn

Category:
Leadership

It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues. – Philip Gibbs

Category:
Morning

I dont want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years. – Lynn Redgrave

Category:
Marriage