Skeleton Shrimp

Famous quotes containing the words skeleton and/or shrimp:

“The bird is not in its ounces and inches, but in its relations to Nature; and the skin or skeleton you show me, is no more a heron, than a heap of ashes or a bottle of gases into which his body has been reduced, is Dante or Washington.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Big fish eat small fish, and small fish eat shrimp eggs.”
—Chinese proverb.