Fish Quotes

1421 Fish quotes by 998 unique authors

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it. — Laozi
Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living. — Julius Boros
The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches. — Mary Astor
Wherever the fish are, that's where we go. — Richard Wagner
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. — Laozi
Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets. — Cecelia Ahern
Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the… — Alexander Herzen
I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure… — Tom Robbins
I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can't say; it may be a… — Michael Faraday
"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel… — Douglas Adams
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love-for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish, birds, and trees.… — Ram Dass
I wasn't running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store. Of course now that I'm selling spaghetti sauce (with Newman's Own),… — Paul Newman
I never drink water... fish f**k in it. — W.C. Fields
Thousands of dead fish have now washed up on shore along the coast of South Carolina. Today the NRA said that this wouldn't have happened… — Jay Leno
Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to assume our physiology… — Lionel Tiger
Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around… — William Carlos Williams
The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out… — Prince William
Mind is nothing but dreams and dreams - dreams of the past, dreams of the future, dreams of how things should be, dreams of great… — Rajneesh
There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are… — Alister Hardy
Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller… — Enric Sala
The Rainbow Fish shared his scales left end right. And the more he gave away, the more delighted he became. When the water around him… — Marcus Pfister
It's so bad being homeless in winter. They should go somewhere warm like the Caribbean where they can eat fresh fish all day. — Unknown Author
Nile perch are enormous but lethargic fish, easy to catch once they have taken your bait. Some are bright golden yellow, some grey pink with… — Kuki Gallmann

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