Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
-- Herman Melville (1819-1891) "Moby Dick" (1851)
-- Herman Melville (1819-1891) "Moby Dick" (1851)
Related:
- Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken
Christian... - It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman... - It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville, american... - There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair
we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical
joke.
Herman Melville (1819-1891), "Moby... - When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's
skin,
one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it;... - Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable
truth;
that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid... - But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not... - And Moby Dick
for king...
