Fishes Quotes · Page 14

Brave men die a single death; cowards marry fish-head mermaids!

— Mario

I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]

— George Herbert

Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet.

— William Shakespeare

The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

— Mary Astor

If you have a fish intelligence, you will be easily trapped in the net.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Clary wondered what exactly peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup tasted like.

— Cassandra Clare

my thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.

— Miriam Makeba

I do call upon a little Fish Mooney energy sometimes, believe it or not.

— Jada Pinkett Smith

Farm animals, like dairy cows - who by nature are vegans - are routinely force-fed fish to increase their weight and milk…

— Sharon Gannon

I'm a very, very healthy eater. I eat lots of fish, lots of vegetables, lots of fruit. I don't eat junk food.

— Victoria Beckham

I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the…

— Warren Buffett

I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus…

— Martin Yan

A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish.

— Robbie Keane

The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people…

— Ogden Nash

I will never eat fish eyeballs, and I do not want to taste anything commonly kept as a house pet, but otherwise…

— Laurie Colwin

The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in…

— St. Catherine of Siena

Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole…

— Rachel Carson

Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local…

— Rachael Ray

If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I fished upstream coming ever closer and closer to the narrow staircase of the canyon. Then I went up into it as…

— Richard Brautigan

...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep…

— Edward Forbes

Do not become self-sufficient . Self-sufficienc y is Satan’s net where he catches men, like poor silly fish, and destroys them. Be…

— Charles Spurgeon

Trout aren't naturally as selective as they've become in crowded tailwaters - they've been trained to be like that by too much…

— John Gierach

An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life. A swirl…

— Kenneth Grahame

We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Nerrissa? You believe her? Well, you at least have to credit her with a certain instability! Remember when she told you that…

— Suzanne Collins

The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and…

— Milan Kundera

How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation', with an ugly emphasis on Brute. Only Christians are capable of…

— W.N.P. Barbellion

There's a switch inside every one of us that I guess grew there as a necessary part of survival. How can you…

— Alissa York

When I was a kid, I felt like I could do anything and play anything. I just felt super-confident. And then, once…

— Patty Schemel

When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and…

— Joseph Addison

Anyway, yes, telephones but not mobile phones, fish and chips still wrapped in actual newspaper and still with some kind of flavour,…

— Quentin S. Crisp

...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.

— Arnold Gingrich

The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.

— Theodore Gordon

Fish Ponies! I put them on the ceiling!" -Tyson

— Rick Riordan

There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish.

— Walt Disney

The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish...

— Herbert Read

But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.

— William Shakespeare

Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.

— Frank Zappa

Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.

— Herbert Hoover