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

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

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

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

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"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

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

Lao Tzu, Author

"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

"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

"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

"Don't bottom fish"

Peter Lynch, Businessman

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

Drew Barrymore, Actress

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

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Writer

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

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

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"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

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

John Ruskin, Writer

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

W. C. Fields, Comedian

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

George Allen, Sr., Coach

"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

"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

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

Dave Barry, Author

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

Dave Barry, Author

"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, Musician

"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

"The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

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

Andre Gide, Novelist

"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

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

Doris Lessing, Writer

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

Thomas Shadwell, Dramatist

"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

"Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

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