Scales Fell

Famous quotes containing the words scales and/or fell:

“It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be reminded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh-bankers, and others, which penetrate up the innumerable rivers of our coast in the spring, even to the interior lakes, their scales gleaming in the sun; and again, of the fry which in still greater numbers wend their way downward to the sea.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?
What, all my pretty chickens and their dam
At one fell swoop?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)