Cunning Quote by Herman Melville Download Open image “Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing” — Herman Melville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cunning Feline Humans Madness Nature of man
Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
There are so many kinds of madness, so many ways in which the human brain may go wrong; and so often it happens that… — James Oliver Curwood Copy Share Image
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“(about cats) They also resist our calls to come, to move, to obey, to present themselves, to do all the things that dogs do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, nations and ages is it the rule — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Dictatorships, wars, and cruelty drive whole countries to madness. My theory is that the human species was crazy from the very first and that… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Yet this is life. For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects of disease… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Would you like to sit?" Kellen asked her. "You'd better do it soon," Owen whispered close to her ear, "or I'm going to bend… — Olivia Cunning Copy Share Image
I am defined by my will to survive, not by intelligence or cunning or money or good looks. The Creator didn't see her way… — Jaune Quick–to–See Smith Copy Share Image
