Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Authors:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the authors)
(Click a letter to view the authors)
Letter "H" » Herman Melville Quotes
«I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I will go to it laughing.»
«Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.»
«For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!»
«From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.»
«How wondrous familiar is a fool!»
«Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory / the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
Allegories, allegory, comprehended, pygmies, Pygmy
«He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married... Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair.»
«Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!»
«This, shipmates, this is that other lesson; and woe to that pilot of the living God who slights it.»
«He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.»
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
