The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed. – Henry David Thoreau

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Age
category

If you havent turned rebel by twenty youve got no heart if you havent turned establishment by thirty youve got no brains! – Kevin Spacey

Category:
Age

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. – Charles Kingsley

Category:
Age

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Category:
Age

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. – Andre Maurois

Category:
Age

Random Quotes

Sandwiches are wonderful. You dont need a spoon or a plate! – Paul Lynde

Category:
Food

You know what the Englishmans idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements. – William Butler Yeats

Category:
God

Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints. – Oswald Chambers

Category:
Humankind

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way. – Henry Ward Beecher

Category:
strength