English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:
Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Henry David Thoreau quotes

American Author, Writer July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862

TOP 10 Henry David Thoreau quotes

Henry David Thoreau quotes in french
Henry David Thoreau quotes in russian
Henry David Thoreau quotes in german
 Cite this Page: Citation

Quotes

One farmer says to me, 'You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle. Henry David Thoreau
For I believe that climate does thus react on man--as there is something in the mountain air that feeds the spirit and inspires. Henry David Thoreau
Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "By turns our purity inspires and our impurity casts us down."
By turns our purity inspires and our impurity casts us down. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as..."
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. Henry David Thoreau
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail. Henry David Thoreau
Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts."
Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for..."
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "It is never too late to give up your prejudices"
It is never too late to give up your prejudices Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "It is never too late to give up our prejudices."
It is never too late to give up our prejudices. Henry David Thoreau
There is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds universally sing when they are so engaged? But alas! we do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have built, and cheer no traveller with... Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to..."
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams. Henry David Thoreau
We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be. Henry David Thoreau

Popular Author

Related Authors