“We are like fish
In this vast sea.
And Satan fishes
For you and me.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright
"Monish" (translated in J. Leftwich. Golden Peacock. Sci-Art, 1939, p. 56.), 1888.
“Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.”
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American author 1928–1982Related quotes
“Governing a large country is like frying a small fish.”
Laozi book Tao Te Ching
Source: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 60
“Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.”
Algernon Sidney (1623–1683) British politician and political theorist
:3 Fish: Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.
:1 Fish. Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
:*William Shakespeare, Pericles, Act ii. Sc. 1.
Source: Discourses Concerning Government (1689), Ch. 2, Sect. 18; comparable to:
“Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.”
T. H. White (1906–1964) author
England Have My Bones (1936)
