"A mere index hunter, who held the eel……" — Tobias Smollett

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• Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel. — Thomas More
• I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an… — William Shenstone
• My hovercraft is full of eels. — John Cleese
• I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan. — Octavia Spencer
• POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles,… — Ambrose Bierce
• The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but… — W.C. Fields
• In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look… — Dave Barry
• A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning… — Tobias Smollett
• It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the… — Graham Joyce
• [W]hat have we done with our forests? Chopped them, and burned them, and wasted them; and now almost the last… — Madison Grant
• Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond! — Sark
• I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. — Edith Sitwell

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