Famous quotes containing the word fishes:
“If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)
“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)