"The dinner even is only the parable..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.”
“As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.”
“If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.”
More on Reality
“Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.”
“Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.”
“Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade.”
More on Symbolism
“The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.”
“I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.”
“We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.”