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- Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel. — Thomas More
- A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. — Tobias Smollett
- I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and… — William Shenstone
- POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes… — Ambrose Bierce
- The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to… — W.C. Fields
- In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up… — Dave Barry
- A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who… — Tobias Smollett
- 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… — Graham Joyce
- [W]hat have we done with our forests? Chopped them, and burned them, and wasted them; and now almost the last of the… — Madison Grant
- Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond! — Unknown Author
- I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. — Edith Sitwell
- Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. — Leonardo da Vinci