Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Long Quotes, Use Quotes

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

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One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

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If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

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Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

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I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully.

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To know and not to use is not yet to know!

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I don't want to be on the other side of the table from the customer. I was never selling anything that I didn't believe in myself or use myself.

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The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

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The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.

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Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.

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The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

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I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.

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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.

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Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.

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A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

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I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are ... Not this time. Not now.

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That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.

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Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]

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As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.

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Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use

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