Fish

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.
  • Ghost in the Shell

• I know the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully.
  • George W. Bush, speech in Saginaw, Michigan (29 September 2000),http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-553138.html 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.