In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the idea of vitality and energy in youth versus the limitations of aging.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote suggests that in the morning of life, which symbolizes youth and vitality, a person is full of energy and engages with the world in a more holistic manner. As one ages, represented by the evening, the physical abilities may decline, leading a person to function more merely through their legs, emphasizing the loss of a more dynamic engagement with life.
In practice
During a philosophical discussion about the stages of life.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.
Gayness is built into Batman. I'm not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There's just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he's intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay.
...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.
I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his diseased imagination surrounded him, and which he believed to be real. So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone.
Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
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