black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Aid my disillusionment, my friend!

Herman Melville

Related Topics

Friendship Help Illusion One Liner

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Fact Incredible Reality True
Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Beyond Desire Event Fulfill Point Remedy
I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Charity Myself Oneself Prejudice Thinking
There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Charming Comfortable Empty Sadness Unknown
I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Friendship Hallow Myself Religion Shallow
A man of true science… thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Evidence Hard Himself Man Mouth Science Thinking True Understand
Failure is the true test of greatness
HERMAN MELVILLE

Be You Entrepreneur Failure Great Greatness Hope Man Men One Liner Original Test Tests True Young
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Compromise Edge Ragged Truth
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Animal Interfere Man Money
Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Better Family Fool Himself Husband Life Maid Man Men Old Partner Stay Woman
There’s magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Down Draw Land Magic Men Sea Stream Water
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Come Known Laughter Myself Willing
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Easy Life Man Myself Way Youth
All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Age Crack Life Lying Reality Round Sharp World
Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
HERMAN MELVILLE

Friendship Help Illusion One Liner
Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Glide Monster Stars Universe

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes