Fishes Quotes

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Human beings are still fish.

— PZ Myers

A little bait catches a large fish.

— John Taylor Wood

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

— Jim Hightower

I like to fish when it's not too hot.

— Josh Turner

And the new day was a great big fish

— Terry Pratchett

Good things come to those who initiate.

— Susan RoAne

One man's fish is another man's poisson.

— Mark Gatiss

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Cofishes-other fish in a group, coworkers, cohorts, etc. Shut up, it's a word.

— Christopher Moore

If you're a fish and you want to be a fish-stick, you have to have very good posture.

— Mitch Hedberg

Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Linda Ellerbee

There are as many reasons why and ways to fish as there are people who do it.

— Russell Chatham

I don't really get romance. Bring me fish or moose, not flowers.

— Eden Robinson

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

— Ryan Stiles

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on…

— Osbert Sitwell

In ten years [i.e., 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed…

— Stephen King

The fish are naked. The fish are always awake. They are the color of old spoons and caramels.

— Anne Sexton

You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.

— Grant Wood

Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string,…

— Samuel Johnson

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

— Zane Grey

Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Give a man Twitter, and he will forget to eat…

— Andy Borowitz

Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could…

— Cornelia Funke

Unlike the Concord, the Merrimack is not a dead but a living stream, though it has less life within its waters and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as…

— Sylvia Earle

Even as a child back in Indiana, whenever I took a Butterbelly off the hook I used to ask myself, "Does this…

— Will Cuppy

I brought the birdcages to the windows. I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages. I poured the fish down the drain.…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims…

— Albert Einstein

Kunlun Mountain Over the earth the greenblue monster Kunlun who has seen all spring color and passion of men. Three million dragons…

— Mao Zedong

I don't eat any animals or anything that has to do with animals. No fish or egg or dairy because I personally…

— Russell Simmons

A feller's glad to be a friend, Out fishin'. A helpin' hand he'll always lend, Out fishin' The brotherhood of rod and…

— Edgar Guest

You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?" "Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both…

— Rick Riordan

Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed…

— Francesca Lia Block

Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the wayThat's another piece of garbage. What the hell's it based on? We…

— John Lennon

Once upon a time, a fisherman went out to sea. He caught many fish and threw them all into a large bucket…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not…

— Theodore Roosevelt

[T]hro’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go?…

— Alexander Pope