Quotes about Time Henry David thoreau

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. Votes: 1

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. Votes: 1

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. Votes: 1

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. Votes: 1

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one. Votes: 1

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. Votes: 1

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. Votes: 1