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

  Kurt Cobain

  Food, Feelings, Okay

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

  Herbert Hoover

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Herbert Hoover (1963). “Fishing for Fun - and to Wash Your Soul”

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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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• Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet.

  Unknown

  Cat, Paws, Wanted

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• 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

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

  Richard Wagner

  Fishing, Fish Tanks

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• Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast.
  In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Stars, Sea

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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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• This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Funny, Humor, Islands

  Speech at Blackpool 24 May 1945, in Daily Herald 25 May 1945

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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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• Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.

  E. W. Howe

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

  Lewis Carroll

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• 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

  Funny, Humor, Lakes

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

  Douglas Adams

  Nice, Rain, Food

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.279, Pan Macmillan

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

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Fishing, People

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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

  A. Best

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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