"But why should the King have the head, and the Queen the tail? A reason for that, ye lawyers!"In England, royalty would literally steal your whale after you did all the hard and life threatening work. The whale was brought on l...

"What is the great globe itself but a Loose-Fish? And what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?"Fisherman's rights to who killed what whale when. Gets a little colonizer at the end there.

"As ashore, the ladies often cause the most terrible duels among their rival admirers; just so with the whales, who sometimes come to deadly battle, and all for love."Ishmael discuses the differences between the sexes of the wh...

"Owing to the density of the crowd of reposing whales, more immediately surrounding the embayed axis of the herd, no possible chance of escape was at present afforded us. We must watch for a breach in the living wall that hemmed us in; the ...

"Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will." We're talking about the tail of the whale.