Fishes

Famous quotes containing the word fishes:

    “It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fishes of this century, their happiness a regular fruit of the summer.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Down the road someone is practicing scales,
    The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails,”
    —Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)

    “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)