Best Bodie Thoene Quotes: The most famous quotes by Bodie Thoene
What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient. — Bodie Thoene
Best Clarence Thomas Quotes: The most famous quotes by Clarence Thomas
I don’t believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. — Clarence Thomas
Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. — Clarence Thomas
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. — Clarence Thomas
Best David Thomas Quotes: The most famous quotes by David Thomas
The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell. — David Thomas
Best Debi Thomas Quotes: The most famous quotes by Debi Thomas
I tell people I’m too stupid to know what’s impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true. — Debi Thomas
Best Dylan Marlais Thomas Quotes: The most famous quotes by Dylan Marlais Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage, rage against the dying of the light. — Dylan Marlais Thomas
Best Dylan Thomas Quotes: The most famous quotes by Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night. — Dylan Thomas
An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do. — Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage, rage against the dying of the light. — Dylan Thomas
Someone’s boring me. I think it’s me. — Dylan Thomas
Best Edward Thomas Quotes: The most famous quotes by Edward Thomas
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. — Edward Thomas
Best Franklin Thomas Quotes: The most famous quotes by Franklin Thomas
One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings. — Franklin Thomas
Best Lewis Thomas Quotes: The most famous quotes by Lewis Thomas
We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. — Lewis Thomas
We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other. — Lewis Thomas
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a ‘common goal’ of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music. — Lewis Thomas
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. — Lewis Thomas
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. — Lewis Thomas
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. — Lewis Thomas
Best Lowell Thomas Quotes: The most famous quotes by Lowell Thomas
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can. — Lowell Thomas
Best Norman Thomas Quotes: The most famous quotes by Norman Thomas
If you want a symbolic gesture, don’t burn the flag wash it. — Norman Thomas
After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement. — Norman Thomas
You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don’t — if you are wise — talk down to any audience. — Norman Thomas
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values. — Norman Thomas
Best C. V. R. Thompson Quotes: The most famous quotes by C. V. R. Thompson
Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light. — C. V. R. Thompson
Best Charles Thompson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Charles Thompson
Never solve a problem from its original perspective. — Charles Thompson
Best Dorothy Thompson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Dorothy Thompson
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live… — Dorothy Thompson
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow. — Dorothy Thompson
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. — Dorothy Thompson
Best Francis Thompson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Francis Thompson
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it. — Francis Thompson
Best Fred Thompson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Fred Thompson
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood. — Fred Thompson
Best Hunter S. Thompson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Hunter S. Thompson
When the going gets weird, The weird turn pro. — Hunter S. Thompson
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me. — Hunter S. Thompson
Best Joseph P. Thompson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Joseph P. Thompson
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. — Joseph P. Thompson
Best Tom Thompson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Tom Thompson
No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors. — Tom Thompson
Best Virgil Thompson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Virgil Thompson
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish. — Virgil Thompson
Best Helen Thomson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Helen Thomson
A cat does not want all the world to love her — only those she has chosen to love. — Helen Thomson
Best J. Arthur Thomson Quotes: The most famous quotes by J. Arthur Thomson
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will. — J. Arthur Thomson
Best James Thomson Quotes: The most famous quotes by James Thomson
Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away. — James Thomson
Best Virgil Garnett Thomson Quotes: The most famous quotes by Virgil Garnett Thomson
Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not. — Virgil Garnett Thomson
Best Henry David Thoreau Quotes: The most famous quotes by Henry David Thoreau
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone. — Henry David Thoreau
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. — Henry David Thoreau
Men are born to succeed, not to fail. — Henry David Thoreau
Dreams are the touchstones of our character. — Henry David Thoreau
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. — Henry David Thoreau
The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off. — Henry David Thoreau
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. — Henry David Thoreau
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. — Henry David Thoreau
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. — Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. — Henry David Thoreau
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. — Henry David Thoreau
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. — Henry David Thoreau
It is not enough to be busy the question is what are we busy about — Henry David Thoreau
I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable. — Henry David Thoreau
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. — Henry David Thoreau
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. — Henry David Thoreau
The world is but a canvas to the imagination. — Henry David Thoreau
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at its root. — Henry David Thoreau
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. — Henry David Thoreau
That government is best which governs least. – from Civil Disobedience — Henry David Thoreau
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short. — Henry David Thoreau
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. — Henry David Thoreau
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly…I think– Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it. — Henry David Thoreau
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. – from Live Without Principle — Henry David Thoreau
The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. – from Live Without Principle — Henry David Thoreau
The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. — Henry David Thoreau
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals. — Henry David Thoreau
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate. — Henry David Thoreau
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. — Henry David Thoreau
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. — Henry David Thoreau
It takes two to speak truth – One to speak, and another to hear. — Henry David Thoreau
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison. — Henry David Thoreau
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. – from Live Without Principle — Henry David Thoreau
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. — Henry David Thoreau
To reget deeply is to live afresh. — Henry David Thoreau
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible And indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. — Henry David Thoreau
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this. — Henry David Thoreau
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages. — Henry David Thoreau
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. — Henry David Thoreau
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. — Henry David Thoreau
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. — Henry David Thoreau
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. — Henry David Thoreau
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. — Henry David Thoreau
There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers. — Henry David Thoreau
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life. — Henry David Thoreau
Why should we be in such desperate hast to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. — Henry David Thoreau
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest. — Henry David Thoreau
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated — Henry David Thoreau
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. — Henry David Thoreau
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. — Henry David Thoreau
We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see. — Henry David Thoreau
Make the most of your regrets. . . . To regret deeply is to live afresh. — Henry David Thoreau
Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice. — Henry David Thoreau
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. — Henry David Thoreau
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. — Henry David Thoreau
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. — Henry David Thoreau
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. — Henry David Thoreau
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. — Henry David Thoreau
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty. — Henry David Thoreau
Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul. — Henry David Thoreau
Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours. — Henry David Thoreau
It is never too late to give up our prejudices. — Henry David Thoreau
Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him. — Henry David Thoreau
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language. — Henry David Thoreau
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head. — Henry David Thoreau
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. — Henry David Thoreau
Goodness is the only investment that never fails. — Henry David Thoreau
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. — Henry David Thoreau
Men have become the tools of their tools. — Henry David Thoreau
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. — Henry David Thoreau
What does education often do It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. — Henry David Thoreau
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. — Henry David Thoreau
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. — Henry David Thoreau
My friend is one… who take me for what I am. — Henry David Thoreau
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide. — Henry David Thoreau
Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows. — Henry David Thoreau
No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. — Henry David Thoreau
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow. — 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. — from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers — Henry David Thoreau
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then. — Henry David Thoreau
Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way. — Henry David Thoreau
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. — Henry David Thoreau
In wildness is the preservation of the world. – from Walking — Henry David Thoreau
What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground. — Henry David Thoreau
I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. — Henry David Thoreau
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language. — Henry David Thoreau
There is no remedy for love but to love more. — Henry David Thoreau
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. — Henry David Thoreau
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. — Henry David Thoreau
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. — Henry David Thoreau
Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. — Henry David Thoreau
To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life. — Henry David Thoreau
The man for whom law exists — the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man. — Henry David Thoreau
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought , and attended to my answer. — Henry David Thoreau
I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. — Henry David Thoreau
The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. — Henry David Thoreau
Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It’s thin current slides away, but eternity remains. — Henry David Thoreau
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. — Henry David Thoreau
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age. — Henry David Thoreau
I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the braver every in a majority — Henry David Thoreau
How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins. — Henry David Thoreau
I stand in awe of my body. — Henry David Thoreau
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. — Henry David Thoreau
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. — Henry David Thoreau
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something. — Henry David Thoreau
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. — Henry David Thoreau
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. — Henry David Thoreau
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth — Henry David Thoreau
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. — Henry David Thoreau
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. — Henry David Thoreau
In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions know that you are alone in the world. — Henry David Thoreau
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. — Henry David Thoreau
Live each season as it passes breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. — Henry David Thoreau
What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. — Henry David Thoreau
What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on — Henry David Thoreau
Water is the only drink for a wise man. — Henry David Thoreau
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. — Henry David Thoreau
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. — Henry David Thoreau
Man is the artificer of his own happiness. — Henry David Thoreau
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate. — Henry David Thoreau
Things do not change we change. — Henry David Thoreau
Every man is the builder of a temple called his body. — Henry David Thoreau
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. — Henry David Thoreau
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. — Henry David Thoreau
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them. — Henry David Thoreau
Best Kerry Thornley Quotes: The most famous quotes by Kerry Thornley
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. — Kerry Thornley
Best Agnes Thornton Quotes: The most famous quotes by Agnes Thornton
Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers. — Agnes Thornton
Best Thornton Quotes: The most famous quotes by Thornton
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. — Thornton
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. — Thornton
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate–that’s my philosophy. — Thornton
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. — Thornton
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. — Thornton
I do borrow from other writers, shamelessly I can only say in my defense, like the woman brought before the judge on a charge of kleptomania, I do steal, but, your Honor, only from the very best stores. — Thornton
The test of an adventure is that when you’re in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ‘Oh, now I’ve got myself into an awful mess I wish I were sitting quietly at home.’ And the sign that something’s wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure. — Thornton
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. — Thornton
Best James Thorpe Quotes: The most famous quotes by James Thorpe
Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else. — James Thorpe
Best Jeremy Thorpe Quotes: The most famous quotes by Jeremy Thorpe
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life. — Jeremy Thorpe
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. — Jeremy Thorpe
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