Fish Quotes: Pearls of Wisdom from the Deep

"Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"Fish sticks and beef stew that millions of children love to hate"

Marian Burros

"One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know"

Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Photographer

"He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish"

Jose Rizal, Writer

"All men are equal before fish"

Herbert Hoover, President

"The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God"

Eric Butterworth, Educator

"Wherever the fish are, that's where we go"

Richard Wagner, Composer

"A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?"

Drew Barrymore, Actress

"Don't bottom fish"

Peter Lynch, Businessman

"I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock"

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Writer

"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it"

Lao Tzu, Author

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

Lao Tzu, Author

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

Mark Twain, Author

"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., Poet

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

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit"

Constantin Brancusi, Sculptor

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

Douglas Adams, Writer

"Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish"

Ovid, Poet

"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish"

Ovid, Poet

"If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

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

John Ruskin, Writer

"You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

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

Herbert Hoover, President

"Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling"

Andre Gide, Novelist

"If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming"

John Steinbeck, Author

"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, Celebrity

"The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks"

George Allen, Sr., Coach

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements"

Audre Lorde, Poet

"I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water"

Thomas Shadwell, Dramatist

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