Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have >>

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; bu >>

The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is. >>

Quotations about Food and Eating

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so >>

It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears. >>

Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have. >>

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo