Henry David Thoreau Funny Quotes

• It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Wisdom, Truth

  A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

• Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Life, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.90, Courier Corporation

• Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Life, Death

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.69, Delphi Classics

• The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Humor, Effective Listening

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.103, Cambridge University Press

• Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

• When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc, etc - I cannot but feel as I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Country, Animal

• We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Fashion, Humorous

  Henry David Thoreau, Michael McCurdy, Terry Tempest Williams (2010). “Walden”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

• I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Life, Dream

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2848, Delphi Classics

• If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Life, Running

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.48, Courier Corporation

• The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Truth, Consistency

  Civil Disobedience (1849)

• Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Sports, Nature

• Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Philosophy, Humor

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1078, Delphi Classics

• Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Humor, Views

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.277, Delphi Classics

• Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Economy, Levity

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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