Fish Quotes · Page 39

Wake yo' bitch-ass up, lucky charms. I like my fish wet and squirmy.

— Damon

The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play.

— Robert Burns

“Damn, Guppy. I think I've found me a kinky little fish.”

— T.S. McKinney

I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.

— Ted Williams

Frog in a little pond can be much happier than fish in a vast ocean!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If you want to be a different fish you gotta get out of the school”

— Captain Beefheart

The biggest predator of fish like cod is other fish - and seals keep fish like that in check.

— Paul Watson

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

— James M. Barrie

I eat food from all over the world for my job as a restaurant critic, so I often find myself craving a…

— Grace Dent

“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime,…

— Aristophanes

The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the…

— Elliot W. Eisner

About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its…

— Arnold Gingrich

“I forgot how to discourage shark attacks and how to fall off the mast properly. I hoped across the deck yelling, "I'm…

— Rick Riordan

What pretty bright trout there are in this bold rock creek! It would full be called a river in England, and so…

— Thaddeus Norris

There many guys out there who are actually fishing for a woman whom they are planning on keeping. But there are guys…

— Steve Harvey

Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men…

— Norman MacCaig

I eat very well. I cook for my family every night. We eat a variety of things, including chicken, fish, pork, lentils,…

— Alicia Coppola

“When someone does wrong, whether it is you or me, whether it is mother or father, whether it is the Gold Coast…

— Yaa Gyasi

Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It was a life with purpose. And it was also a lot of fun. Fishing is fun. Hiking up mountains is fun.…

— Leigh Newman

“The world is a show and the show is a performance of the wealthy, the beautiful and the fortunate. The invulnerable, the…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Then I tell him about the aquarium I saw at the school when I dropped my kids off that morning. Inside it…

— Anonymous

Such a nice day - out all day up in the Carter Notch direction, trout-fishing, with the long drive there and the…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride…

— Ernest Hemingway

Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter.

— Yiyun Li

The fish cannot leave the deep waters. The state's weaponry should not be displayed.

— Laozi

“Sharks are the lions of the sea.They glamorize the oceanic glory.”

— Munia Khan

Imagination needs food like every dog and every cat and every bird and every fish.

— Amos Oz

“If you want to meet fish, you go in water, and if you want to meet birds, visit the sky.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers.

— Henry Beard

I can get away with eating bad, just in moderation. But I mostly eat a lot of fish and chicken.

— Patrick Chung

The number one rule of fishing is be quiet. Don't scare the fish!

— Carole Radziwill

I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like a perfect place for them.

— Richard Brautigan

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

— Don Marquis

Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.

— Roderick Haig-Brown

“Sometimes it's wiser to give a quarry extra line -- that's how to catch a fish, neh?”

— James Clavell

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

— Ernest Hemingway

“He looked like a bored boy deciding whether to poke a dead fish.”

— R. Scott Bakker

There is something basic about fishing that goes back to man's very beginnings.

— Robert Fuller

I'm a fisherman, so I like places like the River Test in Hampshire, which is wonderfully peaceful.

— Bernard Cribbins