Fish Quotes

1421 quotes by 998 authors

The King saw them with no common satisfaction, expressing his desire in no particular to have yt Stellar fish engraven and printed. We wish very… — Unknown Author
The great fish eat the small. — Alexander Barclay
To use color well is as difficult as for a fish to pass from water to air or earth. — Andre Lhote
In my opinion the separation of the c- and ac-stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification since the trials by Vogel and Secchi… — Unknown Author
Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated… — Francis Maitland Balfour
Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. — Unknown Author
The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish… — Elliot W. Eisner
The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the… — Zhuangzi
What is striking is these things [patterns in nature, e.g. fish stripes] do look like something that has been crafted. We are conditioned to think… — Unknown Author
Enlightenment is like witnessing the brilliant sun for the first time in the morning. It is like seeing the beautiful flowers that grow in the… — Chogyam Trungpa
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown… — Nick Offerman
The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs… — Paul Brown
Fish is meant to tempt as well as nourish, and everything that lives in water is seductive. — Unknown Author
A very ancient and fish-like smell. — William Shakespeare
Every July, August and part of September I escape of the guitar, I escape of Paco de Lucia and I go to Mexico to the… — Paco de Lucia
Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer… — Annie Dillard
I see shining fish struggling within tight nets, while I hear orioles singing carefree tunes. Even trivial creatures know the difference between freedom and bondage.… — Du Fu
Killing of animals for food is one thing, but on the other hand they do not exist simply as things to be slaughtered. This is… — Francis Schaeffer
Reply implicitly upon the old, old gospel. You need no other nets when you fish for men; those your Master has given you are strong… — Charles Spurgeon
Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent of Earth's forests… — David Suzuki

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