Famous quotes containing the words small fish, small and/or fish:
“Govern a small family as you would cook a small fish, very gently.”
—(20th century)
“When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts.”
—Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)
“When the weather is bad as it was yesterday, everybody, almost everybody, feels cross and gloomy. Our thin linen tents—about like a fish seine, the deep mud, the irregular mails, the never to-be-seen paymasters, and “the rest of mankind,” are growled about in “old-soldier” style. But a fine day like today has turned out brightens and cheers us all. We people in camp are merely big children, wayward and changeable.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)