 | Henry David Thoreau - 1996 - 220 Seiten
...effeminate natives of the Celestial Empire, which Jonathan should be ashamed to know the names of. I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself,...velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau, Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1996 - 236 Seiten
...The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 4, p. 461, Houghton Mifflin (1906). See also LABOR I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself...velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe... | |
 | Russell Reising - 1996 - 396 Seiten
...of the Fitchburg Railroad in "Sounds," his comment that he "would rather ride on earth in an ox cart with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the...excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way" (8°), and his summarily acerbic aphorism "We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us" (136).... | |
 | Craig Martin - 2000 - 188 Seiten
...crowds. I've been an admirer of Henry David Thoreau ever since I read his words in Walden: "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion." It's my nature to want a solitary stream experience, and I think the vast majority of other anglers... | |
 | Jennifer Hanson - 2002 - 256 Seiten
...The lesson's clear: Food wasn't meant for teeth alone. Here, a guide to its alternate uses: "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion." Make good on Thoreau's assertion and avoid filling the coffers of Barcalounger, Inc. For a cozier fit... | |
 | Doug Hagedorn - 1989 - 398 Seiten
...necessary to get away from the pinball game of life once in a while. Control your own destiny. "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion" —Thoreau Debt, stress, overload, and media suffocate us. The disease of busyness has crippled us... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 538 Seiten
...little trouble" to obtain the necessities, and that he was happier without the superfluities. "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion." He refused a lady's offer of a doormat, and wiped his feet on the grass, because "it is best to avoid... | |
 | Jacqueline Sweeney - 2002 - 84 Seiten
...helped build my confidence. Howie Long, football player ana sports commentator Footbail Season I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion. Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher ana poet Thoreau lived... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2004 - 326 Seiten
...effeminate natives of the Celestial Empire, which Jonathan should be ashamed to know the names of. I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself...velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe... | |
 | Jake Halpern - 2004 - 260 Seiten
...to the woods and built a crude hut along the edge of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion," Thoreau wrote in Walden. He found his new life of isolation to be quite pleasing. "I have, as it were,... | |
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. 
