Fishes Quotes

• If wishes were fishes, the world would be an ocean

  Jim Ross

  Ocean, Wish, Would Be

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• We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place. Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale. Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this, culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, "And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?"

  Alan Bennett

  Boys, Men, Names

  "Writing Home". Book by Alan Bennett, 1994.

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• Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

  Robert Lowell

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  "For the Union Dead" l. 29 (1964)

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• Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Give a man Twitter, and he will forget to eat and starve to death.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Technology, Men

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• We live in an ocean of words, but like a fish in water we are often not aware of it.

  Stuart Chase

  Ocean, Water, Awareness

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• One man's fish is another man's poisson.

  Mark Gatiss

  Men, Another Man, One Man

  Mark Gatiss (2005). “Vesuvius Club”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• I imagine that fish have no word for water.

  Terry Pratchett

  Water, Imagine, Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.184, Random House

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  When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Marriage, Wisdom

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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• No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

  John Ruskin

  Powerful, Lakes, Sea

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.336

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  Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.

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  Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Sports

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• One fish. Two fish. Red fish. Blue fish. Black fish. Blue fish. Old fish. New fish. This one has a little star. This one has a little car. Say! What a lot of fish there are.

  Dr. Seuss

  Stars, Blue, Fishing

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• Love is the net where hearts are caught like fish.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Heart, Love Is

  Twitter post from May 18, 2016

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• Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.

  Richard Wagner

  Fishing, Fish Tanks

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• Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.

  Khalil Gibran

  Giving, Judgement, May

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing.

  Tom Felton

  Fishing, Way

  "Tom Felton Talks About Reading, Collecting, and Being Draco". Interview with Marie Morreale, www.scholastic.com. September 22, 2008.

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• Amoeba has her picture in the book, Proud Protozoon!-Yet beware of pride, All she can do is fatten and divide; She cannot even read, or sew, or cook... The Worm can crawl But has no eyes to look. The Jelly-fish can swim But lacks a bride.

  Julian Huxley

  Book, Eye, Pride

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• The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

  Jim Hightower

  Courage, Opposites, Flow

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• Good things come to those who initiate.

  Susan RoAne

  Patience, Fitness, Workout

  Susan RoAne (2009). “Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

  Kurt Cobain

  Food, Feelings, Okay

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• So long, and thanks for all the fish.

  Douglas Adams

  Democracies Have, Long, Dolphins

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, Pan Macmillan

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• If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Inspirational, Confidence, Believe

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• Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

  Paul Schullery

  Jobs, Lakes, Sea

  Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

  Maimonides

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Fishing, People

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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