Fish Quotes

1421 Fish quotes by 998 unique authors

You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies… — Hermann Hesse
Training fighters is like trying to catch a fish. It's technique, not strength. — Angelo Dundee
I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches. — Nick Lowe
What's the difference between a politician and a catfish? One is a wide-mouthed, bottom-feeding, slime sucker - and the other is a fish. — Preston Manning
Nobody wants somebody who wants them for what they have or the position their in- you want somebody who wants you for you. In case… — T.D. Jakes
You might as well learn that a man who catches fish or shoots game has got to make it fit to eat before he sleeps.… — Robert Ruark
Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold… — Vincent Canby
Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God… — John Wolcot
You want to save more fish? Eat more broccoli. — Barton Seaver
Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you… — Jon Crosby
I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study of Mathematics. An… — James Joseph Sylvester
The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular sorts of entities.… — Alfred North Whitehead
The fish cannot leave the deep waters. The state's weaponry should not be displayed. — Laozi
The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don't know. Can… — Cary Fowler
A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be . . . time to commune with your… — Fred Bear
David Nugent tore up the Championship but he’s gone to Portsmouth and he’s a fish up a tree — Paul Merson
The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with it, he'd kill you for fun. Your...life may be of no… — Brigid Brophy
Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives. — Gwen Cooper
Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made… — Thomas A. Edison
One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we… — Yann Arthus-Bertrand
My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will… — George Bernard Shaw
A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing.… — George Bernard Shaw
I don't eat any animals or anything that has to do with animals. No fish or egg or dairy because I personally don't feel it's… — Russell Simmons
I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished. — Henry David Thoreau
It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work in… — Catherine Booth

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