Native Fish

Famous quotes containing the words native and/or fish:

    The language I have learnt these forty years,
    My native English, now I must forgo,
    And now my tongue’s use is to me no more
    Than an unstringèd viol or a harp.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    When the city gate catches fire, it’s the fish in the moat who suffer.
    Chinese proverb.