Fishes Quotes - Page 9

• The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fishing, Tragedy, Life Is

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• Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he doesn't like sushi, then you also have to teach him to cook.

  Auren Hoffman

  Men, Teach A Man To Fish, Sushi

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• The sea hath fish for every man.

  William Camden

  Men, Rivers, Lakes

  William Camden, John Philipot, Thomas Moule, Mark Antony Lower (1870). “Remains Concerning Britain”, p.334, Ep Publishing Limited

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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 among our countrymen more fishermen.

  Grover Cleveland

  Patriotic, Thoughtful, Lakes

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• I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.

  Carol Burnett

  Meat, Poultry

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• In every species of fish I've angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory. So I say it is good to lose fish. If we didn't, much of the thrill of angling would be gone.

  Ray Bergman

  Memories, Fishing, Would Be

  Ray Bergman (1938). “Trout: Fly Plates in Full Color Painted by Edgar Burke; Photographs of Fly Tying by Charles S. Krug; Also Many Diagrams in Line by Ivin Sickles”

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• Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Kids, Water, Fish Tanks

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• Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Lakes, Sea

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• Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Marine, Men

  'Pericles, Prince Of Tyre' (1606-8) act 2, sc. 1, l. [29]

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• A little bait catches a large fish.

  John Taylor Wood

  Effort, Bait, Littles

  John Taylor Wood (2010). “Quotes to Nirvana”, p.2, iUniverse

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• The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.

  Dave Barry

  Trust, Food, Lakes

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• The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Marine, Lakes, Sea

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• When you were a tadpole and I was a fish In the Paleozoic time.

  Langdon Smith

  Time, Tadpoles

  Langdon Smith (1922). “Poems of Evolution”

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• My face is muffled in my mother's clothing. Her rhinestones injure me. See: my feet are going. Fish flee the forefinger of my aunt. The sun streams over the geraniums. What has this to do with what I feel, with what I am.

  William H. Gass

  Mother, Aunt, Feet

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• Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

  Herbert Hoover

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Herbert Hoover (1963). “Fishing for Fun - and to Wash Your Soul”

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• A fish has no concept of water.

  Janet Fitch

  Water, Concepts

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• Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

  Wendell Berry

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Wendell Berry (2004). “Citizenship Papers: Essays”, p.157, Counterpoint Press

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• You can't really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that's probably true of any work of art - a rock, a tree, a bird, a fish, a sunrise made of light and air.

  Laurence Overmire

  Appreciation, Art, Light

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• But no matter how many fish in the sea, itd be so empty without me.

  Eminem

  Sea, Matter, Empty

  Song: All I See

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• If you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school.

  Don Van Vliet

  School, Different, Want

  "Captain Beefheart: An Artist, A Heartist". Interview with Greg Prevost and Carl Mack, Future Magazine, www.beefheart.com. March 1978.

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• There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.

  Washington Irving

  Fishing, Serenity, Mind

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• Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Doe

  1916 'The Aims of Education; a plea for reform', address as president of the Mathematical Association.

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• Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe, Sooner than I will live with you. Fish will come walking out of the sea, Sooner than you will come back to me.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Cat, Sea, Shoes

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

  Douglas Adams

  Nice, Rain, Food

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.279, Pan Macmillan

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