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Modern Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity…
- Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.
- I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.
- For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers…
- In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its…
- A written word is the choicestof relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art.…
More Modern Quotes
- Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — Margaret Atwood
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' — Norman Ralph Augustine
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker
- Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what… — Johnny Ball
- Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment,… — J. G. Ballard
- The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home… — Edward Abbey
- Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there… — Dave Barry
- I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. — John Barrymore
- I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered. — Mikhail Baryshnikov