United States Fish

Famous quotes containing the words united states, united, states and/or fish:

    Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States—first, murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; thirdly, volumes on spiritualism, occultism and other such claptrap, and fourthly, books on Lincoln.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    It is a united will, not mere walls, which makes a fort.
    Chinese proverb.

    The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers’ document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Its prescriptions are clear and we know what they are ... but life is always your last and most authoritative critic.
    Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    Salerio. Why, I am sure if he forfeit thou wilt not take his flesh. What’s that good for?
    Shylock. To bait fish withal—if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)