Fishes

Famous quotes containing the word fishes:

“3rd Fisherman. I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.
1st Fisherman. Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fishes of this century, their happiness a regular fruit of the summer.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“While he hears in every spring
How the birds do chirp and sing:
Or before the hounds in cry
See the hare go stealing by:
Or along the shallow brook,
Angling with a baited hook,
See the fishes leap and play
In a blessed sunny day:”
—Nicholas Breton (1542–1626)