Quote #189
Men are what their mothers made them.
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
- Whatever limits us we call Fate.
- Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out,…
- In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, …
- Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
- Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.
- Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.
- All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.