Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image ““It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.”” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“No matter what dreadful things happened at least there were still cats in the world.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Stand on Zanzibar is an information overload on topics that sensible people would never want to learn about.” — John Brunner Copy Share Image
“I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful” — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
“I’ll be counting the cats when I come over. There better be the same number each time.” — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“The world would probably be better if people were put in carriers and cats roamed free.” — Mary Matthews Copy Share Image
“If cats could count, they’d start getting nervous around the time they put paid to their fifth life.” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“Kittens HAVE to be drowned, I admit, or the world would be overrun. But no decent, grown-up cat should be done to death --… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
