Herring Quotes
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I think that harping on [earthquake] prediction is something between a will-o'-the-wisp and a red herring. Attention is thereby diverted away from positive measures to eliminate earthquake risk.
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More Herring Quotes
She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.
john heywood— Part I, chapter 10.
The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
d. h. lawrence— Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)
The big fish tubs are completely lined with layers of beautiful herring scales and the wheelbarrows are similarly plastered with creamy iridescent coats of mail, with small iridescent flies crawling on them.
Elizabeth Bishop— Poem: At the Fishhouses
She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.
— Part I, chapter 10. (Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919))
