Fish Quotes · Page 22

All is fish that comth to net.

— John Heywood

“The true angler is generally a modest man…”

— Thaddeus Norris

Live the Dream, Dream the Fish

— The Irresistible Force

Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.

— Ed Zern

Whales who come up and spout off get harpooned.

— Henry Kravis

Only dead fish swim with the stream all of the time…

— Linda Ellerbee

“I don't drink water. Fish fuck in it.”

— W.C. Fields

I gave up fishing in England. It got too crowded.

— Jeremy Wade

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

— William Shakespeare

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

— Karl Marx

“I wish I were a shark so humans would play with me with strange toys.”

— Dan Jackson

“If I ask for a goldfish, he spits a glob of phlegm into a jar of water.”

— Eduardo C. Corral

It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

— Izaak Walton

“The hatchlings of most deep-sea octopus species develop directly, without passing through a larval stage.”

— Richard Ellis

“A fish in shallow waters is secure, but that is not why God gave it fins.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“I know I must look like a fish, standing there with my mouth gaping open, but I’m”

— Lauren Oliver

I read the 'Times' and 'Post,' but I have nothing against the 'Daily News.' I also fish around the Internet for entertainment…

— Andy Cohen

“My nephew is still at preschool, i am a proud aunty once found him took care of his pets. He cleaned up…

— Ratih Kartikasari

If you want to eat my fish, you have to come to Padstow. It's like the Med - people want local fish…

— Rick Stein

“Screw sharks; a Transformer could be stretching up on its tippy toes and would still have a mile of cover to eat…

— Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Draus

“In the two days since Brac had discovered the fishing hole, he'd spent practically every waking moment with a rod in his…

— Carol Lynne

You can't beat a British holiday for rock pooling and sandcastles with fish and chips on the seafront - perfect.

— Kate Garraway

“(Fishing) is as boring as boring gets. And then when it's finally not boring and you have a fish on the line…

— Holly Goldberg Sloan

There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

— Ferran Adria

I like night fishing, even though there is a molecule of terror in it. Maybe it is that tiny bit of terror…

— Paul G. Quinnett

In every species of fish I've angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the…

— Ray Bergman

“My Dolphin, you only guide me by surprise, a captive as Racine, the man of craft, drawn through his maze of iron…

— Robert Lowell

“Then he began to pity the great fish that he had hooked. He is wonderful and strange and who knows how old…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I'm partial to telling all the sharks they're not as cool as they think they are, and that it's people like them…

— Chelsea M. Campbell

Giving a man a fish feeds him for one meal. Teaching a man to fish feeds him for a lifetime. As parents…

— David A. Bednar

“He stared fixedly at the opposite bank where an angler was fishing, his line perfectly still. All of a sudden the man…

— Guy de Maupassant

Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need…

— Alvar Aalto

“Tomorrow dawned on Borogravia like a great big fish.”

— Terry Pratchett

If you wanna fish you gotta fish where the fish are...

— Milana May

“Every good seduction first begins with a baited hook.”

— Anne Mallory

If I were a man with gills, I would be a fish!

— Ryan Stiles

Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.

— Han Suyin

“Is that my foot? Silly me, it's a starfish”

— Petra Mathers

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

— Izaak Walton

“We are fish swimming in a cooking pot”

— Nicole Mones