Holy Mackerel may refer to:
- The Holy Mackerel, a part of the Chandelier in the Massachusetts Senate
- The Holy Mackerel, a 1960s band featuring Paul Williams
- The Holy Mackerel, a 1990s band fronted by Les Claypool
- "Holy mackerel!", an exclamation originating from the American television show Amos 'n' Andy
- "Hey Hey Holy Mackerel", a 1969 Chicago Cubs fight song, written by Johnny Frigo
- The "Holy Mackerel", a humorous colloquialism for the fish-shaped Ichthys symbol
- HolyMackerel, a Florida beer
Famous quotes containing the words holy and/or mackerel:
“Neither years nor books have yet availed to extirpate a prejudice then rooted in me, that a scholar is the favorite of Heaven and earth, the excellency of his country, the happiest of men. His duties lead him directly into the holy ground where other men’s aspirations only point. His successes are occasions of the purest joy to all men. Eyes is he to the blind; feet is he to the lame. His failures, if he is worthy, are inlets to higher advantages.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A village seems thus, where its able-bodied men are all plowing the ocean together, as a common field. In North Truro the women and girls may sit at their doors, and see where their husbands and brothers are harvesting their mackerel fifteen or twenty miles off, on the sea, with hundreds of white harvest wagons, just as in the country the farmers’ wives sometimes see their husbands working in a distant hillside field. But the sound of no dinner-horn can reach the fisher’s ear.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)