Best Fishes Qoutes
1164 Fishes quotes by 852 unique authors
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It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at…
— Lin Yutang
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In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.
— Sri Yukteswar Giri
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What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any…
— Jay Inslee
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Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there’s nothing you can do about being born liberal — fish gotta swim and hearts…
— Molly Ivins
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Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign' have been…
— Martin Gardner
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We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. … Our…
— Murray Bookchin
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Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them. The first abyss…
— Yusef Komunyakaa
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Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.
— Nick Hornby
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Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.
— Garth Nix
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History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's…
— Edward Hallett Carr
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We hunt and fish or we'll go nuts dealing with the criminal behavior of our elected officials.
— Ted Nugent
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The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been entertained…
— Fred Hoyle
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in…
— Loren Eiseley
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The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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GE is the biggest polluter of the Hudson.. years ago they killed all the fish dumping millions of lbs. of pcb's into our waterways. Now…
— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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I am firmly convinced that the ideal combination leading to a happy life is to have the time to both fish and read.
— Brian Murphy
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In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not…
— Grover Cleveland
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Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.
— Herbert Hoover
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I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without…
— John Gierach
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Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly.
— John Gierach
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Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.
— Lee Wulff
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The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught…
— Lee Wulff
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Never leave fish to find fish.
— Moses
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Poets talk about "spots of time", but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a…
— Norman Maclean
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