Fishes Quotes

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

87 Copy quote

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

Henry David Thoreau

Inspirational, Uplifting, Sports

81 Copy quote

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

Kurt Cobain

Food, Feelings, Okay

44 Copy quote

Report
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.

1343 Copy quote

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

Jim Hightower

Courage, Opposites, Flow

65 Copy quote

Report
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

15 Copy quote

Report
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

6 Copy quote

Report Show source
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

48 Copy quote

Report
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

43 Copy quote

Report Show source
I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

Karl Lagerfeld

Artist, Meat, Three

20 Copy quote

Report
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

Rivers, Fish Tanks, Borders

15 Copy quote

Report
So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Douglas Adams

Democracies Have, Long, Dolphins

Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, Pan Macmillan

56 Copy quote

Report Show source
He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.

Ernest Hemingway

Beach, Cat, Fighting

Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The old man and the sea”, p.9, Hueber Verlag

3 Copy quote

Report Show source
Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

Ernest Hemingway

Love You, Fish In The Sea, Ends

Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.15, Hamilton Books

7 Copy quote

Report Show source
You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?

Ernest Hemingway

Pride, Sea, Alive

Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.31, Hamilton Books

3 Copy quote

Report Show source
I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different.

Lil Wayne

Ocean, Swimming, Sky

Song: Sky Is Tha Limit, Album: Da Drought 3

469 Copy quote

Report Show source
My best friend and I love to make fish faces.

Beverley Mitchell

Friendship, My Best Friend, Faces

3 Copy quote

Report
To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of sun on blue water. It brings meekness and inspiration from the decency of nature, charity toward tackle-makers, patience toward fish, a mockery of profits and egos, a quieting of hate, a rejoicing that you do not have to decide a darned thing until next week. And it is discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

Herbert Hoover

Hate, Inspiration, Men

Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945”

49 Copy quote

Report Show source
Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

P. J. O'Rourke

Food, Lakes, Sea

3 Copy quote

Report
Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.

Lee Wulff

Fishing, Games, Trout

Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult

44 Copy quote

Report Show source
Poets talk about "spots of time", but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone.

Norman Maclean

Fishing, Gone, World

Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.70, University of Chicago Press

48 Copy quote

Report Show source
I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds.

Merlin Olsen

Pounds, Bigs, Caught

3 Copy quote

Report
Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.

Bill Barich

Art, Lakes, Sea

3 Copy quote

Report
Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.

Lewis Carroll

Dishes, Riddle

'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 9

3 Copy quote

Report Show source
There are more fish taken out of a stream than ever were in it.

Oliver Herford

Taken, Lakes, Sea

Oliver Herford (2014). “The Complete Cynic”, p.36, BookRix

9 Copy quote

Report Show source

You May Also Like Quotes On:

Big Fish

Fly Fishing

Fish In The Sea

Trout Fishing