Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believe >>

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator. >>

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know. >>

Quotations about Comedy and Comedians

We mustn't complain too much of being comedians -- it's an honorable p >>

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. >>

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. >>

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo