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

  Kurt Cobain

  Food, Feelings, Okay

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

  Thomas Shadwell

  Fishing, Water, Company

  Thomas Shadwell (1927). “The complete works of Thomas Shadwell”

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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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• 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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• 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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• No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

  Lewis Carroll

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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

  Gloria Steinem

  Hilarious, Heartbreak, Funny Love

  Attributed

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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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• 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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• The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

  A. Best

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Whales, Littles, Ifs

  Oliver Goldsmith (1862). “Poetical Works”, p.80

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• A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humorous, Cat, Law

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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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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• The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fishing, Tragedy, Life Is

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• Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Marine, Men

  'Pericles, Prince Of Tyre' (1606-8) act 2, sc. 1, l. [29]

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• Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.

  Henry Winkler

  Florida, Play, Fish Tanks

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• I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Love, Fun, Creativity

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• Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

  Virginia Woolf

  Cat, Men, Surfing

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.137, Virginia Woolf

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