Fish Quotes
139 quotes
"I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish."
"She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish."
"Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called."
"I’ve often wondered why more science textbooks don’t tell teenagers that the only thing sharks like to eat more than fish, are dead prostitutes."
"The sides of buildings should be like the tops of lakes. I’d fish through your window hoping to catch a smile."
"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant."
"I dance so fluid you’d think I’m a fish. I don’t need to drink to be able to dance—I am the drink. Have a sip and find out for yourself."
"Trees shaped like deer should not be ridden like benches if they get stuck up in other trees. No hunting farming allowed. Fishing only."
"Tennis is the only sport with love in the score, and that makes it the most romantic. I would be a player, but I wisely use the net to go fishing instead."
"I am a fisherman among farmers, and as a farmer what I grow is tired of waiting for her to love me."
"Using my nipples as bait, I went fishing for compliments. I got a few bites, but nothing to write about in Field & Stream."
"I fish the old-fashioned way—with dynamite and screen doors for nets. Don’t be rude—knock before entering the kill zone."
"I’m a Pisces, and people say that Pisces make the best the best lovers. That’s because Pisces are fish, and it’s like my grandpa always used to say, “The next best thing to making love to a mermaid, is having sex with a fish."
"A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity."
"I drink like a fish, and I swim in my thirst. I’m so parched for her love that I think I may drown in my desire."
"To catch affection, try being efficient by using a fishing net. You can’t sit back and wait for romance to grow on trees."
"I love coffee cake, but I would prefer if it were just a little more drinkable. I almost choked while chugging some this morning, and if it weren’t for the fluid nature of clownfish, I might have caught feelings for Hillary using a basketball net."
"The lungs are fishing nets for smoke, and I inhaled her essence like she was marijuana grown just for me."
"They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science."
"I wear a ten-gallon cowboy hat. That’s where I keep my fish tank. When you’re a farmer of love, you’ve always got pink kissers on your mind."
"It's the sound of the sea that makes you believe in mermaids."
"I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the middle of the room, and then they all shot past me with a rush and out of the front door; and all that was left of the mobscene was the head of a whacking big fish, lying on the carpet and staring up at me in a rather austere sort of way, as if it wanted a written explanation and apology."
"A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish."
Charles Simic, The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs
"O Heavenly Children, God's messengers are as limitless as the fish in the sea. They come in all colors, regions, languages and creeds. But their message is one and the same, don't you see? He only wishes to unite all His children under one family tree."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Flaxfield died on a Friday which was a shame, because he always ate a trout for dinner on Friday, and it was his favourite."
"Only foolish fishes wish to fly!"
"If you are trying to look clean, neat and avoid casting your nets in trouble waters, you will catch no fish."
"As lacking in privacy as a goldfish."
"She is neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring."
"Master I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. Why as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones."
"There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it."
"God never did make a more calm quiet innocent recreation than angling."
"Angling is an innocent cruelty."
"Fenchurch had red mullet and said it was delicious.Arthur had a swordfish steak and said it made him angry. He grabbed a passing waitress by the arm and berated her.“Why’s this fish so bloody good?” he demanded, angrily."
"Gwynned lies two days westwards; still further south, the weregeld calls. Mayhap with All-Father Woden's favour, my deeds may yet inspire the skalds."
"Science can't prove everything! Say, a scientist saw a fish splashing in the pond. On the next day he shared it with someone. But, the listener wanted proof. How would the scientist prove that he was speaking the truth?"
"And I want to be with you till the birds forget how to fly in the blue azure sky and the fish forget how to swim in the blue green sea..."
"I routinely inform people when I meet them that I am like a real life version of Dory the fish, as I am very forgetful and have problems tracking conversations."
"Expectations are at war, if good feeling and discomfort clash. When we are expecting zest and joy, our good karma may be ousted by distress and frustration, if negative downbeat waves are emitted. Just with a feel of realism, without prejudice, should we step into the future. What will be, will be. Only the fortune of war will tell, since life may be war or peace. ("Fish for silence.")"
"I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully."
"Stolen oranges also have Vitamin C. Likewise, a stolen salmon, too, has omega-3 fatty acids."
"Beauty without grace is like a fish far displaced from the water and looking at this kind of beauty is like watching that fish die right there on the cement in front of you."
"The orange of the golden carp appeared at the edge of the pond. . . . We watched in silence at the beauty and grandeur of the great fish. Out of the corners of my eyes I saw Cico hold his hand to his breast as the golden carp glided by. Then with a switch of his powerful tail the golden carp disappeared into the shadowy water under the thicket."
"A dream without an action is like a fish without gills. It can’t survive."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"The most risky day in the world will be the day the bird will decide to swim and the fish will decide to fly. Stay glued to what you can do."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"If we don’t live in the same vibe, it is hard to be aware of each other. When our reading differs from our neighbors’ reality, our surroundings may take a range of discordant shades and daily episodes become unrecognizable. But if we endeavor to find out, the “who is who”, the “what is what” and the “where is Waldo”, we might demonstrate our social literacy and connectedness. ("Fish for silence.")"
"We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the ability to fly as morally valuable per se. If we were fish, we would proclaim the ability to live underwater as morally valuable per se. But apart from our obviously self-interested proclamations, there is nothing morally valuable per se about human intelligence."
"I love you like a big fish"
"Teach all men to fish, but first teach all men to be fair. Take less, give more. Give more of yourself, take less from the world. Nobody owes you anything, you owe the world everything."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Into the sea I’d love to sink When with both eyes a shark can blinkIs he a brave fish or a marine man?Through those closed eyelids my heart will he scan?"
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