Fishes Quotes · Page 24

“if wishes could be fishes, even beggars would eat.”

— Lili St. Crow

“Fill this city of mine with people as, You filled the river with fishes O Lord.”

— Quli Qutub Shah

A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.

— Catherynne M. Valente

If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.

— Margaret Mead

Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.

— Ernest Hemingway

I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.

— Arnold Gingrich

I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish.

— David Mitchell

You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fish.

— Plum Sykes

There are times when salmon play no part in the proceedings of a day that is obstensibly spent in their pursuit.

— Dale Rex Coman

“Only those who ignore d sea waves&tides to fish in deep waters can have abundance of fishes to feed their generation.”

— Olojo Daniel Olatunji

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

— Rafael Sabatini

The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells

— Ed Zern

Why he would agree to install an eight-by-eight-foot fish tank and then not fill it with a single dolphin made me want…

— Chelsea Handler

My eating is pretty consistent. I like Greek yogurt for breakfast. I eat two giant salads a day, a broiled meat or…

— Veronica Webb

Um ,sorry. I cant read the last line." "Fish. Have you stolen any fish from the holy lakes?" "I lived in Kansas..So…

— Rick Riordan

I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I…

— Jimmy Buffett

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour towards…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

We really have to get going," Sam said. "Can we leave the car here and pick it up later?" The monk said,…

— Christopher Moore

You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young…

— Hermann Hesse

The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes…

— Alfred North Whitehead

So what if man's body evolved from the monkeys? Whether he came from monkeys or fish is unimportant. The important idea is…

— Garth Stein

I'm very much against photographs being framed and treated with reverence and signed and sold as works of art. They aren't. They…

— Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see,…

— Alexander Pope

My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than…

— George Bernard Shaw

“But really, anybody could die any day, whether you were ready or not. It could be your pet fish or your sister…

— Suzanne LaFleur

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a…

— Rudyard Kipling

And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been…

— Yann Martel

Obama's Marxist mentors - Franklin Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers - also understood that you don't build an army of…

— David Limbaugh

HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean…

— William Shakespeare

The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist…

— Rick Riordan

It just makes me realize how . . . fleeting life can be. How quickly it all passes by. And it's strange…

— Toni Blake

The fish who keeps on swimming is the first to chill upstream.

— Nick Hexum

To use color well is as difficult as for a fish to pass from water to air or earth.

— Andre Lhote

Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.

— Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish.

— James P. Gorman

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

— Pericles

“If wishes were fishes, we'd all throw nets.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

We know the only fish that goes with the flow is a dead fish.

— Sarah Palin

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

— Marie Laurencin