Smith Meal Fish

Famous quotes containing the words smith, meal and/or fish:

    Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
    —Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

    The eating of a MacDonald’s meal is like the reading of Reader’s Digest—small, easily digested, carefully processed, carefully cut down, abridged. Reader’s Digest gives us knowledge that is easily compartmentalized, simplified, ideologically sound.
    Clive Bloom, British educator. “MacDonald’s Man Meets Reader’s Digest,” Readings in Popular Culture: Trivial Pursuits?, St. Martin’s Press (1990)

    Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)