Fishes Quotes

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  When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Marriage, Wisdom

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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

  John Ruskin

  Powerful, Lakes, Sea

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.336

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  Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Sports

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• If wishes were fishes, the world would be an ocean

  Jim Ross

  Ocean, Wish, Would Be

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• Love is the net where hearts are caught like fish.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Heart, Love Is

  Twitter post from May 18, 2016

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• One fish. Two fish. Red fish. Blue fish. Black fish. Blue fish. Old fish. New fish. This one has a little star. This one has a little car. Say! What a lot of fish there are.

  Dr. Seuss

  Stars, Blue, Fishing

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• Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.

  Richard Wagner

  Fishing, Fish Tanks

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• If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

  Frank Herbert

  Wish, Casts, Ifs

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.39, Penguin

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• The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

  Jim Hightower

  Courage, Opposites, Flow

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• It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

  Kurt Cobain

  Food, Feelings, Okay

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• I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing.

  Tom Felton

  Fishing, Way

  "Tom Felton Talks About Reading, Collecting, and Being Draco". Interview with Marie Morreale, www.scholastic.com. September 22, 2008.

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• If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Inspirational, Confidence, Believe

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• Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Atheist, Men, Teach A Man To Fish

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

  W. C. Fields

  Life, Swimming, Innovation

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• No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

  Lewis Carroll

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

  Zhuangzi

  Passion, Journey, Walking Away

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  There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Sports, Sarcastic

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• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

  Gloria Steinem

  Hilarious, Heartbreak, Funny Love

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• Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

  Jim Hightower

  Flow, Conformity, Cowardice

  Jim Hightower (2004). “Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time to Take It Back”, p.114, Penguin

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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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• Fish and visitors stink in three days.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Benjamin Franklin, Bessie W. Johns (comp) (1942). “Poor Richard comes to Life”

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• Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Fire, Tree, Understanding

  George Gaylord Simpson (1967). “The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man”, p.345, Yale University Press

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• A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Sea

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. [29]

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• I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

  Anthony Doerr

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

  Penguin Group Interview, www.encyclopedia.com. 2006.

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