Fish Quotes

1421 Fish quotes by 998 unique authors

How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' . — George Bernard Shaw
Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the pleasure there would… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The shellfish thing is very scary. You have to know the people you buy from and exactly where their wholesalers are getting the fish from. — Julia Child
Watch it! It was robbed from other beings so it's HOT 'MERCHANDISE' and it's against the Law... the LAW OF DECENCY!!! Stay within this Law,… — Adela Popescu
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble… — Martial
Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even… — D. H. Lawrence
Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle. — Lewis Carroll
Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond? — Rupert Brooke
He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming. — Unknown Author
Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. — John Dryden
The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish. — Juvenal
I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing. — Izaak Walton
In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,-O, they fish with all nets In the School of Coquettes! When her brooch she forgets… — Henry Austin Dobson
All fish are not caught with flies — John Lyly
Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples. — Robert Graves
There are more fish taken out of a stream than ever were in it. — Oliver Herford
God was someone I wound up turning over and over in my mind each night... Was He punishing me with this meal or was He… — David Sedaris
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you weep for pain.… — Sathya Sai Baba
Many years ago, I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realized, 'I am killing him?all for the passing pleasure… — Paul McCartney
Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it — John Florio
Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a… — Ramakrishna
I was the legal counsel in the effort to amend the Virginia Constitution to give Virginians the right to hunt and fish constitutionally, and we… — Tim Kaine
The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish... — Herbert Read

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