Famous quotes containing the word fishes:
“If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“The seeds of the life of fishes are everywhere disseminated, whether the winds waft them, or the waters float them, or the deep earth holds them; wherever a pond is dug, straightway it is stocked with this vivacious race. They have a lease of nature, and it is not yet out.”
—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)