Famous quotes containing the word fishes:
“If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“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)
“There are not so many fishes in these rivers as in the Concord.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)