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Thunder Quotes by Herman Melville
- He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
- For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak…
- Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the…
- There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men…
- So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and…
More Thunder Quotes
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man… — Joseph Addison
- Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody. — Eubie Blake
- I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies. — Eden Ahbez
- There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But… — John Bertram Phillips
- For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm,… — Frederick Douglass
- A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a… — Kenneth Rexroth
- Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder. — Edwin Morgan
- BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts… — Ambrose Bierce
- Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke! — Walt Whitman
- Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder… — Seneca the Younger