Madding Crowd

Famous quotes containing the words madding crowd, madding and/or crowd:

    “Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife,
    Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray;”
    —Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

    “Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife,
    Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray;”
    —Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

    “The truly efficient laborer will not crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task, surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure, and then do but what he loves best. He is anxious only about the fruitful kernels of time.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)