Herman Melville Famous Quotes
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke.
"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."
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed."
Herman Melville Quotations
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
Michael Leuning
The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.
Paul Erlich
Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.
Fulton John Sheen
Possession is eleven points in the law.
Colley Cibber
Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.
Francis Bacon
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
Michael Winner
"Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him"
Vince Lombardi
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.
Romare Beardon
"Our doubts are traitors,And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt."
William Shakespeare
"Hope is the thing with feathers -- that perches in the soul -- and sings the tune without words -- and never stops, at all."
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson