Oh, boys, don’t be sentimental; it’s bad for the digestion!
Herman Melville
Sentimental Avoidance, Health Advice, Sentimental, Health, Digestion, Avoidance
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More Herman Melville Quotes
“The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.” Herman Melville
Schoolmaster Sailor, Stoics Transition, Strong Decoction, Schoolmaster, Stoics, Transition
Herman Melville Schoolmaster Sailor, Stoics Transition, Strong Decoction, Schoolmaster, Stoics, Transition“He who goes oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.” Herman Melville
Cape Horn, Frequent Circumspection, Maritime Wisdom, Cape, Wisdom, Circumspection
Herman Melville Cape Horn, Frequent Circumspection, Maritime Wisdom, Cape, Wisdom, Circumspection“All truth is profound.” Herman Melville
Profound Truth, Deep Insight, Truth, Profound, Insight, Knowledge
Herman Melville Profound Truth, Deep Insight, Truth, Profound, Insight, Knowledge“But that darkness was licked up by the fierce flames, which at intervals forked forth from the sooty flues, and illuminated every lofty rope in the rigging, as with the famed Greek fire. The burning ship drove on, as if remorselessly commissioned to some vengeful deed.” Herman Melville
Fierce Flames, Burning Ship, Greek Fire, Flames, Ship, Fire
Herman Melville Fierce Flames, Burning Ship, Greek Fire, Flames, Ship, Fire“No fear; I like a good grip; I like to feel something in this slippery world that can hold, man.” Herman Melville
Confidence, Strength, Trust, Stability, Courage, Self-assurance
Herman Melville Confidence, Strength, Trust, Stability, Courage, Self-assurance“In this particular Billy was a striking instance that the arch interferer, the envious marplot of Eden, still has more or less to do with every human consignment to this planet of Earth. In every case, one way or another he is sure to slip in his little card, as much as to remind us – I too have a hand here.” Herman Melville
Interference, Envy, Humanity, Life’s Struggles, Morality, Fate
Herman Melville Interference, Envy, Humanity, Life’s Struggles, Morality, Fate“Failure is the true test of greatness.” Herman Melville
True Test, Greatness Proved, Failure Lesson, Failure, Test, Greatness
Herman Melville True Test, Greatness Proved, Failure Lesson, Failure, Test, Greatness“Have an eye to the molasses tierce, Mr. Stubb; it was a little leaky, I thought. If ye touch at the islands, Mr. Flask, beware of fornication.” Herman Melville
Molasses Leak, Flask Warning, Stubb Islands, Molasses, Warning, Islands
Herman Melville Molasses Leak, Flask Warning, Stubb Islands, Molasses, Warning, Islands“His duty he always faithfully did; but duty is sometimes a dry obligation, and he was for irrigating its aridity whensoever possible with a fertilizing decoction of strong waters.” Herman Melville
Faithful Duty, Obligation Aridity, Strong Waters, Duty, Obligation, Waters
Herman Melville Faithful Duty, Obligation Aridity, Strong Waters, Duty, Obligation, Waters“Delight, – top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.” Herman Melville
Gallant Delight, Divine Patriot, Heaven Devotion, Delight, Patriot, Heaven
Herman Melville Gallant Delight, Divine Patriot, Heaven Devotion, Delight, Patriot, Heaven“Some certain significance lurk in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher except to sell by the cartload, as they do hills about Boston, to fill up some morass in the Milky Way.” Herman Melville
Hidden Significance, World’s Worth, Cosmic Cipher, Significance, World, Cipher
Herman Melville Hidden Significance, World’s Worth, Cosmic Cipher, Significance, World, Cipher“There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.” Herman Melville
Sleeping Critics, American Views, Artistic Apathy, Critics, Views, Apathy
Herman Melville Sleeping Critics, American Views, Artistic Apathy, Critics, Views, Apathy“The drama’s done. Why then here does any one step forth? – Because one did survive the wreck.” Herman Melville
Surviving Wreck, Drama End, Life Continuation, Drama, Wreck, Life
Herman Melville Surviving Wreck, Drama End, Life Continuation, Drama, Wreck, Life“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.” Herman Melville
Human Connection, Sympathy, Life Actions, Community, Effects, Cause
Herman Melville Human Connection, Sympathy, Life Actions, Community, Effects, Cause“Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?” Herman Melville
Greek Grammarians, Dual Number, Twin Humor, Grammar, Twins, Humor
Herman Melville Greek Grammarians, Dual Number, Twin Humor, Grammar, Twins, Humor“Leviathan is not the biggest fish; – I have heard of Krakens.” Herman Melville
Leviathan, Mythical Creatures, Sea Legends, Kraken, Marine Life, Imagination
Herman Melville Leviathan, Mythical Creatures, Sea Legends, Kraken, Marine Life, Imagination“The names of all fine authors are fictitious ones, far more so than that of Junius, – simply standing, as they do, for the mystical, ever-eluding Spirit of all Beauty, which ubiquitously possesses men of genius.” Herman Melville
Authors, Creativity, Inspiration, Genius, Mysticism, Art
Herman Melville Authors, Creativity, Inspiration, Genius, Mysticism, Art“They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.” Herman Melville
Quakers, Irony, Religion, Fighting Spirit, Conflict, Social Critique
Herman Melville Quakers, Irony, Religion, Fighting Spirit, Conflict, Social Critique“And as for going as cook, – though I confess there is considerable glory in that, a cook being a sort of officer on shipboard – yet, somehow, I never fancied broiling fowls; – though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.” Herman Melville
Shipboard Cook, Culinary Glory, Broiled Fowls, Cooking, Glory, Food
Herman Melville Shipboard Cook, Culinary Glory, Broiled Fowls, Cooking, Glory, Food