Perch/fishing

Famous quotes containing the words perch and/or fishing:

“We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape, till custom make it
Their perch and not their terror.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The wildness and adventure that are in fishing still recommended it to me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)