Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — `Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.’ — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

If you’ve gone into a marriage and you haven’t been clear about how you’re going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you’ve set yourself up for failure.

It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

I can replace things, but I could never replace my wife and kids.

Robert Pattinson should not take back Kristen Stewart. She cheated on him like a dog and will do it again – just watch. He can do much better!

She was not for everyone, but she was for me.

It’s great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won’t; it’s up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.

I think you have different soul mates throughout your life, that your soul needs different things at different times.

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there’s no altering that.

I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five’s a charm?

The only time a woman has a true orgasm is when she’s shopping.

Usually I’m on top to keep the guy from escaping.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me – consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.

I think careful cooking is love, don’t you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who’s close to you is about as nice a Valentine as you can give.

“They stood there pretending to be just friends when all the while everyone in the room could plainly see that they were only existing for each other.