"The cart before the horse is neither..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must bestripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living laid for a foundation.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.”
“The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.”
“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.”
More on Simplicity
“I was determined to know beans.”
“The highest art is no art. The best form is no form.”
“To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.”
More on Foundation
“Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.”
“Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost.”
“A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.”