Eel Quotes
22 quotes by 19 authors
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Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
— Thomas More
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A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.
— Tobias Smollett
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I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to…
— William Shenstone
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POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to get your hands…
— W.C. Fields
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In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English…
— Dave Barry
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A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge…
— Tobias Smollett
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It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic…
— Graham Joyce
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[W]hat have we done with our forests? Chopped them, and burned them, and wasted them; and now almost the last of the great stands of…
— Madison Grant
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Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond!
— Sark
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I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
— Edith Sitwell
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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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I have the backbone of an eel.
— Betty White
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Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.
— C.S. Lewis
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I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of…
— Edith Sitwell
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Here's the thing: this eel spends its entire life trying to find a home, and what do you think women have inside them? Caves, where…
— Arthur Golden
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Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.
— Arthur Golden
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Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as…
— Georgette Heyer
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I have a name,†I grumped, my stomach pinching me harder. “Yes, but it has no pizzazz. Ra-a-a-a-chel. Rach-e-e-e-eel,†he said, trying it out in…
— Kim Harrison
Who Wrote These Eel Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 22 Eel Quotes as follows: