Fishes Quotes - Page 5

• If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Whales, Littles, Ifs

  Oliver Goldsmith (1862). “Poetical Works”, p.80

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• I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.

  Perry Como

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Patrick F. McManus (1984). “Never Sniff A Gift Fish”, p.157, Macmillan

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• If you have a fish intelligence, you will be easily trapped in the net.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ifs, Trapped

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• Only dead fish swim with the stream all of the time.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Swim, Streams

  Linda Ellerbee (2005). “Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table”, Putnam Adult

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• A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.

  George Crabbe

  Hurt, Fear, Lying

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• Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet.

  Unknown

  Cat, Paws, Wanted

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• In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond.

  Victoria Beckham

  Big Fish, Fish Tanks, Ponds

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• Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love You, Fish In The Sea, Ends

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.15, Hamilton Books

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• So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air.

  Rex Hunt

  Lakes, Air, Sea

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Men, Wife, Scary

  Theodore Dreiser (1965). “Theodore Dreiser; His Autobiography”

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• Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Running, Memories, Water

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1875). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.325

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• Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Years

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• Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

  Dave Barry

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.104, Ballantine Books

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• Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.

  Bobby Flay

  Fishing, Cooking, Hamburgers

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• I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.

  Sylvia Earle

  Real, Ocean, Marine

  "Ambassador for the World's Oceans". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. January 27, 1991.

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• I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed.

  Martin Yan

  Time, Long, Fish Tanks

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• Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Leadership, Swim, Individuality

  Radio Times 9 July 1964

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• One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!

  Dr. Seuss

  Blue, Two, Red

  Dr. Seuss (2017). “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish”, HarperCollins UK

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• 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

  Water, Trying, Breathe

  Robin McKinley (2014). “The Hero and the Crown”, p.116, Open Road Media

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• Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Cooking, Kingdoms

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• Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Lakes, Sea

  Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945”

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• A very ancient and fish-like smell.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Smell, Ancient

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 2, l. [27]

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• Fish recognize a bad leader.

  Conan O'Brien

  Fishing, Leader

  "Conan O'Brien Endorses Finnish President". January 15, 2006.

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• You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.

  Dick Dale

  Ddt, Fish Tanks, World

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