Great Quotes of Henry David Thoreau

[HDThoreau2]

Posted: 3/4/07 at 3:15pm

I'll get you all started:

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

WOW! What a great American.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 3/4/07 at 3:15pm

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

[pab]

Posted: 3/4/07 at 3:18pm

"It is never too late to give up your prejudices"

[HDThoreau2]

Posted: 3/4/07 at 3:18pm

Another thought provoking one:

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

[HDThoreau2]

Posted: 3/4/07 at 3:22pm

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

[kjklo]

Posted: 3/4/07 at 3:26pm

"Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary."

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 3/4/07 at 3:27pm

"It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men."

[MatthewAddison]

Posted: 3/4/07 at 3:37pm

"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 3/4/07 at 3:38pm

Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

[HDThoreau2]

Posted: 3/4/07 at 4:24pm

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.

[Jon]

Posted: 3/4/07 at 5:06pm

Thoreau ironic story fo the day:

About 10 years ago, I drove with my mom from NYC to Boston. On the way into Boston (well, actually we were staying in Cambridge), we saw the sign indicating Walden Pond. We decided to stop and check it out. It was a Saturday afternoon at about 2 PM. As we turined into the driveway for the parking area, we were informed by a park ranger that we could not come in - the parking lot was full, and the park had reached its capacity. Walden Pond, a place synonymous with peace and solitude, was too crowded.
Updated On: 3/4/07 at 05:06 PM

[dfwtheatreguy]

Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:28pm

Simplify. Simplify. Simplify.

[HDThoreau2]

Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:40pm

If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away.

[HDThoreau2]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 6:47pm

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

[GoSmileLaughCryClap]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 7:37pm

So you're who, what and where you should be. But I doubt your mentor, if alive today, would be typing away in the darkness to a sea of ephemeral humanity.

Being here on a website designed to serve those in the world who love the companionship of a theater, full of people eager to share a communal experience together seems so at odds with your agoraphobia.

I'm pretty sure Henry David Thoreau said that, but if he didn't FOX news will confirm it later in the week.

[DG]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 7:41pm

HD's use of Thoreau's name continues to irk the crap out of me.

Unless, of course, we deal with that night he spent in jail.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 7:43pm

I've never been a huge fan of Thoreau, the man or the pos(t)er.

He has some great quotes, though.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 7:56pm

What about his "Resistance to Civil Government" where he protested against the Mexican War as "the work of a comparatively few individuals using the standing government as their tool” to acheive their own wants?

Sound familiar, HDT?

Hmmmmmmmmm.

[DG]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 7:57pm

See, Priest - he can't be ALL bad

[Craig]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 8:08pm

but this is the only thread where HDT actually credits his source!

[DG]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 8:17pm

linnie - the bashing is for the POSTER HD.

And Craig, that truly made me guffaw!

[vmlinnie]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 8:19pm

1. I was aware that they were on about the poster, not the real person.

2. I'm surprised how quickly my punishment was handed down! I deserved that.

[HDThoreau2]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 9:13pm

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

[HDThoreau2]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 11:09pm

Just a quick question that should have been asked at the Kangaroo Court of Friday of Valerie Plame:

If your status was either covert or classified, and if you did in fact meet with the Senate Democratic Policy Committee and with Nicholas Kristof, did you view it as part of your covert or classified work to meet with political groups and a columnist from the New York Times to discuss matters within your purview at the CIA?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/18/07 at 11:12pm

This manic phase of yours is just a band aid over the deep pain you're in. If you don't take time to feel it, and continue to lash out at others, you are going to have a HUGE psychological break and it will not be pretty.