Quotes by Henry David Thoreau with men

Henry David Thoreau

American writer

Lived from: 1817 - 1862

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: United States

Born: 12 july 1817 Died: 6 may 1862

Quotes 21 till 22 of 22.

• Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

  ― Henry David Thoreau
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• Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

  ― Henry David Thoreau
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Subjects in these quotes:

• institutions
• odd-fellow
• perception
• commonest
• dullest
• express

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