Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers.

Henry David Thoreau

You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.

Henry David Thoreau

Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.

Henry David Thoreau

How wholesome winter is, seen far or near; how good, above all mere sentimental, warm-blooded, short-lived, soft-hearted, moral goodness, commonly so called. Give me the goodness which has forgotten its own deeds,--which God has seen to be good, and let be.

Henry David Thoreau

The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact.... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold.

Henry David Thoreau

A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and accordingly, whatever we meet with in cold and bleak places, as the tops of mountains, we respect for a sort of sturdy innocence, a Puritan toughness. All things beside seem to be called in for shelter, and what stays out must be part of the original frame of the universe, and of such valor as God himself.

Henry David Thoreau

In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue.

Henry David Thoreau

If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.... You are paid for being something less than a man. The state does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely. Even the poet laureate would rather not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. He must be bribed with a pipe of wine; and perhaps another poet is called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe.

Henry David Thoreau

Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas.

Henry David Thoreau

In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.

Henry David Thoreau

What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?

Henry David Thoreau

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.

Henry David Thoreau

We must take root; send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day.

Henry David Thoreau

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.

Henry David Thoreau

Perhaps of all our untamed quadrupeds, the fox has obtained the widest and most familiar reputation.... His recent tracks still give variety to a winter's walk. I tread in the steps of the fox that has gone before me by some hours, or which perhaps I have started, with such a tip-toe of expectation as if I were on the trail of the Spirit itself which resides in the wood, and expected soon to catch it in its lair.

Henry David Thoreau

The seeds of the life of fishes are everywhere disseminated, whether the winds waft them, or the waters float them, or the deep earth holds them; wherever a pond is dug, straightway it is stocked with this vivacious race. They have a lease of nature, and it is not yet out.

Henry David Thoreau

Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,--shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter acceptas special or general providences; but they touch our consciences, they remind us of our sins. Another deluge would disgrace mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato, and making a snug bed even there of some hair left after plastering and of brown paper; for even the wildest animals love comfort and warmth as well as man, and they survive the winter only because they are so careful to secure them.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

However, the wind only changes the picture temporarily, the substrate remains the same and sooner or later the same picture surfaces once again.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A person who can break wind is not dead.

Jill Scott

I like to read Octavia E. Butler's 'Wild Seed' over and over again. And J. California Cooper's 'The Wake of the Wind.' That one makes me cry from joy. I'll mourn - I'll actually mourn - and then I'll cry from joy. She's wonderful.

Jessica Ennis

People think the gold medal is yours and they say you're going to win - but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren't doing it negatively - they're mostly lovely and they really do want you to win - but they don't understand the difficulty and intensity of competition.

Jerry Hollendorfer

I thought she was going to win it, she just got out-bobbed at the wire.

Jerry Della Femina

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

Jerry Falwell

I want you to have all the academic freedom you want as long as you wind up saying the bible account (of creation) is true and all others are not.

Jeremy Bentham

Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.

Eugene H. Peterson

Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.

Ernest Hemingway

Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.

Ernest Hemingway

If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.

Ernest Hemingway

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

Ernest Hemingway

No one ever stopped when they were winning.

Ernest Hemingway

The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.

Ernest Hemingway

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.