Fishes

Famous quotes containing the word fishes:

“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)

“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)

“If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)