Fish
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Fish are aquatic vertebrates that are typically cold blooded, covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins.
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- Piscem natare doces
- Translation: You're teaching a fish to swim.
- Anonymous Latin saying
- Fish and guests in three days are stale.
- John Lyly, Euphues (1579)
- Fish not, with this melancholy bait,
For this fool-gudgeon, this opinion.- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, sc. i
- A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, sc. iii
- Bait the hook well: this fish will bite.
- William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act II, sc. iii
- 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.
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, sc. ii
- I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of water.
- Thomas Shadwell, A True Widow, Act III, sc. i (1679)
- It was always the biggest fish I caught that got away.
- Eugene Field, Our Biggest Fish, st. 2
- Only the gamefish swims upstream,
But the sensible fish swims down.- Ogden Nash, When You Say That, Smile
- People would cry for the death of a bird, but never for the blood of a fish. Blessed are those who have a voice.
- I know the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully.
- George W. Bush, speech in Saginaw, Michigan (29 September 2000),[1] referring to a widely reported dispute in the Klamath region of Oregon between farmers with irrigation rights and Native Americans with fishing rights.
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- This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
- Aneurin Bevan, speech at Blackpool 24 May 1945.
