Fish Quotes

1421 Fish quotes by 998 unique authors

‎"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275) — Mark Nepo
A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Bwenawa brought my attention to two wooden planks raised about four feet above the ground. On the ledges were lagoon fish sliced open and lying… — J. Maarten Troost
To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as are calls for… — Mikhail Bulgakov
If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink. — Robin McKinley
Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime. — Confucius
Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and breaking our hearts… — Charles Simic
I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is… — William Shakespeare
my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile! why don't you… — Charles Bukowski
You are my beauty, my body, perfected. All I was drained off into you. When you left, my health went with you - leaving a… — Clive Barker
Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin. — William Shakespeare
Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the… — David Lynch
I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the… — Jimmy Buffett
Chuck said, “Hey. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” Cawley looked over at him. “I’ll bite. How many?” “Fish,” Chuck… — Dennis Lehane
Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water. — Piers Anthony
Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their… — Dr. Seuss
We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male and female but… — Francesca Lia Block
Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal on earth has… — Marc Bekoff
The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed them dead fish. A crowd gathers around the tank, mostly… — Bret Easton Ellis
I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head… — Yann Martel
It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
And I have two eyes. I’ve seen that little melodrama play out between you and that other tracker. Fish? Flounder? What’s his name? — Amanda Hocking
She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles! — Laura Ingalls Wilder
One man's fish is another man's poisson. — Mark Gatiss

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