Henry David Thoreau Clothes Quotations

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.

The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,--mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.

Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts.

Why do you ever mend your clothes, unless that, wearing them, you may mend your ways. Let us sing.

Beware of any profession for which you must buy new clothes.

Who ever saw his old clothes, - his old coat, actually worn out, resolved into its primitive elements, so that it was not a deed of charity to bestow it on some poor boy, by him perchance to be bestowed on some poorer still, or shall we say richer, who could do with less? I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

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