Burrs Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Burrs Inspirational Men Thrown
The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for… — Andrew Potter Copy Share Image
Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away. — Anaxagoras Copy Share Image
I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case… — Samuel de Champlain Copy Share Image
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“«In my opinion, it is you considerate, humane men, that are responsible for all the brutality and outrage wrought by these wretches; because, if… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed… — Gerald Kersh Copy Share Image
Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight. — Samuel Smiles 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… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“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
The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Never do today what you can do tomorrow, because something may occur to make you regret your premature action. — Aaron Burr Copy Share Image
You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
America was based on a big promise--a great big one: the Declaration of Independence. When you have to live with that in the house,… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I… — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey differ most… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
