Fishes Quotes · Page 8

I never drink water... fish f**k in it.

— W. C. Fields

No which fish are big enough to land

— Rick Riordan

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly.

— Oscar Hammerstein II

My big fish must be somewhere.

— Ernest Hemingway

Fish are not the best authority on water.

— Jane Yolen

[T]is not all fishing to fish.

— Izaak Walton

In a shared fish, there are no bones.

— Democritus

To fish in troubled waters.

— Matthew Henry

The people are like water and the army is like fish.

— Mao Zedong

It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

— Karl A. Menninger

A rib... loaves and fish... some spit... God can do a lot with a little.

— Mark Hart

If you want to catch fish, don’t throw your net into the bathtub.

— Reinhard Bonnke

When you bait your hook with your heart, the fish always bite.

— John Burroughs

Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish

— Muhammad Ali

You know what they say: A woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle.

— Candace Bushnell

A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.

— Selma Lagerlöf

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

— Laurie Colwin

It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists…

— Ed Zern

I walked to the lake and sat on the shore for a few minutes, just staring at the moonlight on the water.…

— Bill Barich

I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

— Trevor Dunn

We are also working on the restoration of salmon runs, and we are doing a new process of mass marking with these…

— Norm Dicks

Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to…

— Orlando Aloysius Battista

But I love fish, cheese and meat, and I eat everything, but only in small quantities if it's rich.

— Eva Herzigova

Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust…

— John D. Voelker

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human?…

— Richard Flanagan

The creatures with whom we share the planet and whom, in our arrogance, we wrongly patronize for being lesser forms, they are…

— Henry Beston

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Center your country in the…

— Laozi

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

— Rachel Carson

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

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

— Rachael Ray

Don't talk anybody, don't come near! Can't you see the fish might hear? He thinks I'm playing with a piece of string;…

— A. A. Milne

The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels,…

— William O. Douglas

For a while I thought I was the dragon. I guess I can tell you that now. And, for a while, I…

— Richard Siken

I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study…

— James Joseph Sylvester

We scientists can argue forever about important topics like slightly different flavors of vanilla ice cream. Consider the silliness of this debate:…

— Mark Powell

The natives of British Columbia live largely upon the fish which abound in their seas and rivers. If the fish do not…

— James G. Frazer

The gods made the earth for all men t' share. Only when the kings come with their crowns and steel swords, they…

— Anonymous

I've had the hat for four years and it keeps getting better with age. It's been in the ocean and the pool…

— Andy Spade

I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to…

— Alice Walker