I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Quote by Herman Melville

Topics: Adventure Quotes, Laughter Quotes

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and...

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and...

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier...

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier...

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads,...

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads,...

There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.

There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding...

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding...

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of...

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of...

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but...

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but...

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but...

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but...

There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for...

There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for...

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the...

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the...