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Fishes light up the interior of the sea like fires.
— Fish
Fishes light up the interior of the sea like fires.
Down here all the fish is happy Guess who's gon' be on the plate?
I know the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully.
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Give a man a sub-prime fish loan and you're in business, buddy.
It was always the biggest fish I caught that got away.
Her father was a fisherman, with a beard that tasted of salt, and fingers that smelled like the sea.
It would hardly be fish who discovered the existence of water.
Fish and guests in three days are stale.
You, sir, are a fish.
Only the gamefish swims upstream,But the sensible fish swims down.
I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of water.
Fish not, with this melancholy bait,For this fool-gudgeon, this opinion.
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
Bait the hook well: this fish will bite.
What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell.
They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.
Alive without breath, All in mail never clinking
Wha'll buy my caller herrin'? Ca' them lives o' men.
O scaly, slippery, wet, swift, staring wights,And drinks, and stares, diversified with boggles.
Fishes that tipple in the deepe,Know no such liberty.
Cut off my head, and singular I am,Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.
Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, And wag your tails about.
Our plenteous streams a various race supply,And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
'Tis true, no turbots dignify my boards,But gudgeons, flounders, what my Thames affords.
We have here other fish to fry.
It's no fish ye're buying—it's men's lives.
Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
Blue, darkly, deeply, beautifully blue.
All's fish they get that cometh to net.
Now at the close of this soft summer's day,And cut with finny oars the sparkling tide.
