black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

My body is but the lees of my better being.

Herman Melville

Related Topics

Better Body Myself

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

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

Assumption Criticisms Humanity Poor Rich
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Animal Dog Help Ourselves Philosophy
Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Accident Fame Merit One Liner
I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Friendship Hallow Myself Religion Shallow
One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Awake Cool Man Morning One Liner Wisdom
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
Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
HERMAN MELVILLE

Assumption Criticism Home Poor Warm
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Art Greatness Growth Known Life Master Old Wisdom Work
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
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Application Feeling Man Opinion Play Truth Universal
We cannot live for ourselves alone.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Alone Live Nature Ourselves
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Age Death Life Man Old Wake Up
Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
HERMAN MELVILLE

Accomplishment Habit Inspirational Strange
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
HERMAN MELVILLE

Feeling Love Myself Nature Remote Sea
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
HERMAN MELVILLE

Lost Moments Nature Ourselves Principal Rule State Value

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes