Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Funny
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Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.
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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
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When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc, etc - I cannot but feel as I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country.
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We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
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Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
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Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.
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It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
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Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.
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Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.
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I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.
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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
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Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.
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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
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