Fish Quotes

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Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never… — William Kent Krueger
I thought English is a strange language. Now I think French is even more strange. In France, their fish is poisson, their bread is pain,… — Xiaolu Guo
The teeth on [the viperfish] are so long that if they closed inside the mouth of the fish, it would actually impale its own brain. — Edith Widder
I felt like Eartha Kitt. I'm serving fish, honey, and this ain't trout. — Jujubee
You need a good support system when you're trying to make positive lifestyle changes. If everyone is eating burgers and fries while you're having fish… — Bob Harper
Remember folks, fish are like relatives. After two days, they stink. — Bobby Heenan
On a boat cruising down east, sardines are scooped out of the holding seine at Eastport at dawn. 'Sardines' may be any of several species… — Luis Marden
To me, these biblical stories are just so many fish stories, and I'm not specifically referring to Jonah and the whale. I need indisputable proof… — W.C. Fields
Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see… — Richard Griffiths
Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every… — Edward Abbey
The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink. — Edward Abbey
We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease. — Robert Lowell
The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems. — Poul Anderson
The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G.K. Chesterton has… — Evelyn Waugh
As for myself, I do not believe in loggers, I believe in trees. I do not believe in fishermen, I believe in fish. I do… — Paul Watson
If I were a man with gills, I would be a fish! — Ryan Stiles
Empty the pond to get the fish. — Robert Bresson
Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming… — Dennis E Adonis
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Center your country in the Tao and evil… — Laozi

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