“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime,… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature -… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail! — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan. — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
Here's the thing: this eel spends its entire life trying to find a home, and what do you think women have inside… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel. — Thomas More Copy Share Image
It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image