Fishes Quotes · Page 5

The fish, Even in the fisherman's net, Still carries, The smell of the sea.

— Mourid Barghouti

A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

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

— Dale Rex Coman

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

All my clear-eyed fish, Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish, Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze... My charming rod, my potent river spells.

— John Keats

“He looked from Will to Tessa and raised his silvery eyebrows. "A miracle," he said. "You got him to speak." "Just to…

— Cassandra Clare

Love is like a tide. When it's in, everything looks beautiful and inviting. Only when love recedes can you see the debris…

— Kathy Lette

Sex can be great in your seventies - no Viagra needed - and it certainly beats fish and chips.

— Paul Daniels

China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main market for rhino horn. Tigers are…

— Mark Carwardine

A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the…

— Roderick Haig-Brown

'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O for breath to utter what is like…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

— Horace

In the Mediterranean of my childhood, there were no large groupers, sharks, or whales. All I saw was seaweed and a few…

— Enric Sala

When I was very young, one of my favourite books was Captain's Courageous and I suppose one of the reasons I loved…

— Clive James

There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom…

— Alister Hardy

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

— Dean Kamen

There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.

— Alexander Pope

You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and…

— Charles Spurgeon

I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle,…

— Amy Lowell

Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act.

— Christopher Camuto

These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and…

— George Q. Cannon

The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.

— T. H. White

It's just that the longer I fish, the more I long for simplification and lightness.

— Tom Sutcliffe