Volume I, Ch. 11.
The Antiquary (1816)
“Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.”
“Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.”
: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:
“Live the Dream, Dream the Fish”
written on reverse of Dreamfish CD, 1993.
Symposiacs, book viii. Question viii
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.”
As quoted in The Quotable Will Rogers (2006) by Joseph H. Carter
As quoted in ...
“Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth, it buys as long as it has the means to buy.”
Vol. II, Ch. XX, p. 449.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
“As fish cannot live without water, so guerrillas cannot live without the people.”
With the century, vol. 5
“Men are not accustomed to buy books unless they want them.”
The Duty of Owning Books (1859)
Context: Men are not accustomed to buy books unless they want them. If, on visiting the dwelling of a man of slender means, I find the reason why he has cheap carpets and very plain furniture to be that he may purchase books, he rises at once in my esteem. Books are not made for furniture but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
“A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?”
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
