T-Z Quotes

Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862) American essayist, poet, and philosopher

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I wanted to live deep and suck all the marrow of life..." Walden

"Man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can do without."

Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
(1835-1910) American philosopher/humorist

"It is just like mans vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions."

"Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for -- annually, not oftener -- if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man's side, consequently on the Lord's side; hence it was proper to thank the Lord for it and extend the usual annual compliments."

Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author

"Truth in matters of religion is simply the opinion that has survived."

Yoda

"Do or do not. There is no 'try.'" -The Empire Strikes Back