Famous quotes containing the words fish and/or man:
“The fish sees the bait, not the hook; a person sees the gain, not the danger.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The utmost familiarity with dead streams, or with the ocean, would not prepare a man for this peculiar navigation; and the most skillful boatman anywhere else would here be obliged to take out his boat and carry round a hundred times, still with great risk, as well as delay, where the practiced batteau-man poles up with comparative ease and safety.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)