Smith Meal Fish

Famous quotes containing the words smith, meal and/or fish:

    Correspondences are like smallclothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
    —Sydney Smith (1771–1845)

    The eating of a MacDonald’s meal is like the reading of Reader’s Digest—small, easily digested, carefully processed, carefully cut down, abridged. Reader’s Digest gives us knowledge that is easily compartmentalized, simplified, ideologically sound.
    Clive Bloom, British educator. “MacDonald’s Man Meets Reader’s Digest,” Readings in Popular Culture: Trivial Pursuits?, St. Martin’s Press (1990)

    The fish sees the bait, not the hook; a person sees the gain, not the danger.
    Chinese proverb.