Avoiding Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

“The salmon swims against the current simply because he wants to be like the others.”

— Fulvio Fiori

Fish recognize a bad leader.

— Conan O'Brien

President Bush stopped off at a bass pro fishing store to pick up a fishing reel, some line and some rubber worms. He's going…

— Jay Leno

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I imagine that fish have no word for water.

— Terry Pratchett

The fish who keeps on swimming is the first to chill upstream.

— Nick Hexum

A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.

— Oliver Lodge

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port…

— Henry Adams

The fish will be the last to discover water.

— Jerome Bruner

There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from…

— Peter Benchley

“The powerless life raft, sloshing around the North Pacific, emits a vast, spreading plume of steam like that of an Iron Horse chugging full…

— Neal Stephenson