"I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."

Man, Men, Lonely, Solitude

22

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."

Exlpore more Man quotes

"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Man, Pain

"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Man, Men, Poison

"Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?"

bell hooks, American Critic

Man, Men, Columbus

"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Man, Woman

"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."

Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist

Man, Men

"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

Man, Old, Today

"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Man, Men, Want

"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Man, Men, Women, Beginning

"The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Man, Men, Will

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Man, Poor, Statesman

Explore more quotes by Henry David Thoreau

"If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things."

Wisdom

"Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man."

Life

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."

Time

"Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces."

Power

"What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party."

War

"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."

Freedom

"Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men."

Life

"It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes."

Identity

"A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting."

Wisdom

"No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well."

Truth