fishes quotes

And they say unto him,We have here but five loaves, and two fishes. 112

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew14:17.

There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John 6:9.

   What shall we say of the intelligence, not to say religion, of those who are so particular to distinguish between fishes and reptiles and birds, but put a man with an immortalsoul inthesame circlewiththewolf, thehyena, and theskunk? What must betheimpressionmadeupon children by such a degradation of man?

-WilliamJennings Bryan
Statement issued in Dayton, Tennessee, 28  Jul1925, by Mrs W  J Bryan, shortly after the endof the Scopes trial and her husband's death.

How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws!

-Dodgson
  Alice's  Adventures in Wonderland, ch.2,'The Pool of  Tears'.

By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

-John Dryden
  Annus Mirabilis, stanza155.

The uncommunicating muteness of fishes.

- Charles Lamb
  Essays of Elia,'A Quakers' Meeting'.