Live Fish

Famous quotes containing the words live and/or fish:

“This spending of the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“When the city gate catches fire, it’s the fish in the moat who suffer.”
—Chinese proverb.