|
|
One that is neither flesh not fish.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Rede Me and be Not Wrothe (I, 3)
|
But death is sure to kill all he can get
And all is fish with him that comes to net.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Witts Recreations (ep. 644)
|
The great fish [eat] the small.
Author: Alexander Barclay
Source: The Ship of Fools
|
Phone for the fish-knives, Norman
As Cook is a little unnerved;
You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes
And I must have things daintily served.
Author: John Betjeman
Source: How to get on in Society
|
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.
Author: Aneurin Bevan
Source: in a speech at Blackpool as reported by the "Daily Herald" on May 25, 1945
|
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and
over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Author: Bible
Source: Genesis (ch. I, v. 26)
|
One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith unto
him,
There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small
fishes: but what are they among so many?
Author: Bible
Source: John (ch. VI, v. 8-9)
|
And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
Author: Bible
Source: Luke (ch. XXIV, v. 42)
|
Thy neck is a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in
Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower
Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
Author: Bible
Source: Song of Solomon (ch. 7, v. 4)
|
Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond;
But is there anything Beyond?
Author: Rupert Brooke
Source: Heaven
|
The sea hath fish for every man.
Author: William Camden
Source: Remains Concerning Britain
|
"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail,
"There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my
tail!
See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance:
They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the
dance?"
Author: Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Rev. Charles L. Dodgson)
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a song
|
How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!
Author: Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Rev. Charles L. Dodgson)
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (ch. 2)
|
The little fishes of the sea,
They sent an answer back to me.
The little fishes' answer was
"We cannot do it, Sir, because--"
Author: Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Rev. Charles L. Dodgson)
Source: Through the Looking Glass (ch. 6)
|
Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.
Author: Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Rev. Charles L. Dodgson)
Source: Through the Looking Glass (ch. 9)
|
I have other fish to fry.
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. XXXV)
|
When fishes flew and forests walked
And figs grew upon thorn,
Some moment when the moon was blood
Then surely I was born.
With monstrous head and sickening cry
And ears like errant wings,
The devil's walking parody
On all four-footed things.
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Source: The Donkey
|
The whales, you see, eat up the little fish.
Author: Thomas Churchyard
Source: Chippes (145)
|
I will not make fish one and flesh of another.
Author: John Clarke
Source: Paroemiologia (182)
|
A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.
Author: George Crabbe
Source: The Parish Register (pt. II)
|
The great fishpond (the sea).
Author: Thomas Dekker
Source: The Honest Whore (pt. I, act I, sc. 2)
|
Ann, Ann!
Come! quick as you can!
There's a fish that talks
In the frying-pan.
Author: Walter de la Mare
Source: Alas, Alack
|
Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive,
And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive;
His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow,
That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw:
Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand,
That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand,
Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut.
And if at first he fail, his second summersaut
He instantly assays and from his nimble ring,
Still yarking never leaves, until himself he fling
Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap.
Author: Michael Drayton
Source: Poly-Olbion (sixth song, l. 45)
|
Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering,
Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Duke of Guise (epilogue, l. 39)
|
God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers,
So many fishes of so many features,
That in the waters we may see all Creatures;
Even all that on the earth is to be found,
As if the world were in deep waters drowned.
Author: Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Source: Divine Weekes and Workes (wk. I, day 5)
|
