Quote by Herman Melville Download Open image ““In man or fish, wriggling is a sign of inferiority.”” — Herman Melville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
“When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“It is in vain to drown a fish, no matter how deep you submerge it.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Men’s natures wrangle with inferior things, Though great ones are their object.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
“A fish must overcome its fear of depths before it can rule the waters.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Fish for a man, he'll eat for a day, don't teach him to de-bone that fish, You may not have to worry about him… — V. Pain Copy Share Image
“It is easier to lure a fish than to hit it over the head with a club.” — Carol Kendall Copy Share Image
“You'll meet someone else; there are more fish in the sea, as the saying is, than ever came out of it.” — Elizabeth Aston 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
