Fishes Quotes - Page 28

• The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sports, Fishing, Bait

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We must not stint
  Our necessary actions in the fear
  To cope malicious censurers, which ever,
  As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow
  That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further
  Than vainly longing.

  William Shakespeare

  Benefits, Action, Longing

  William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Jay L. Halio (1999). “King Henry VIII, Or, All is True”, p.90, Oxford University Press

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• But fish not with this melancholy bait
  For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.

  William Shakespeare

  Fool, Bait, Opinion

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 101

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• Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prarie, it concerns us to attend to the nature of fishes, since they are not phenomena confined to certain localities only, but forms and phases of the life in nature universally dispersed. The countless shoals which annually coast the shores of Europe and America are not so interesting to the student of nature as the more fertile law itselffrom which it results that they may be found in water in so many places, in greater or lesser numbers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Lakes, Europe And America

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.18, Xist Publishing

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• It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fishes of this century, their happiness a regular fruit of the summer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Summer, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.460, Simon and Schuster

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• The people are like water and the army is like fish.

  Mao Zedong

  Army, People, Water

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• Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practise toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Summer, Sports, Spring

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• English literature is a flying fish.

  E. M. Forster

  Fishing, Flying, Literature

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• [Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Flower, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.374, Cambridge University Press

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• and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin
  she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea
  she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males
  and dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Gay, Dark, Blood

  David Herbert Lawrence, “Whales Weep Not!”

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• Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.

  Philip K. Dick

  Running, Numbers, Host

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer”, p.227, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long.

  Vince Poscente

  Growing Up, Long, Tanks

  Vince Poscente (2002). “Invinceable Principles: Essential Tools for Life Mastery”, Invinceaility Series

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• Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand. Those flying fish, they're not leaping for joy, they're jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat them. That luminous water, it takes its gleam from millions of tiny dead bodies, the glitter of putrescence. There's no beauty here, only death and decay.

  Curt Siodmak

  Beauty, Beautiful, Jumping

  "Fictional character: Paul Holland". "I Walked with a Zombie", www.imdb.com. 1943.

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• One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do... I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up... I wait for a situation that is like the proverbial "shooting fish in a barrel."

  Jim Rogers

  Lying, Waiting, Investing

  "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.

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• It's just one of those deals where I have to keep moving and keep looking. It's a lot about timing and a lot about boat-positioning, and I'm just trying to get fish to react to several different baits.

  Kevin VanDam

  Moving, Trying, Bait

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• I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Philosophy, Perfect, Soup

  Elbert Hubbard (1898). “As it Seems to Me: Being Some Philistine Essays Concerning Several Things”

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• It's nice, when fishing, to catch a fish. But it doesn't really matter if you don't. What you always catch is a quiet time sitting at the water's edge, or in a gently rocking boat, a silent time of water and sky and the movement of natural things.

  Ruth Rudner

  Nice, Fishing, Sky

  Ruth Rudner (1978). “Forgotten pleasures: a guide for the seasonal adventurer”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian.

  Douglas Adams

  Atheist, Italian, Thinking

  Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• If we stand by the eagle, fish will die; if we stand by the fish, eagle will die! This dilemma has been created by the random evolutionary process. There is no goodness, there is no justice and there is no intelligence in here. We are living in a primitive and flawed order.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Eagles, Order, Justice

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• Sophia Loren would be a glamour girl even if she were in rags selling fish. She has the look, the movement and the intellect.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Girl, Rags, Would Be

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common heritage, a few simple beliefs recur: that all are indeed members of the same human family, that all share in responsibility for the others, that each is capable of responding directly to divine guidance. To seek to translate these into practical action with regard to soil or petroleum or the fish of the sea is not necessarily to do what is directly effective in changing society.

  Gilbert F. White

  Responsibility, Simple, Sea

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• Each summer, for example, nitrogen and phosphate washing from farmlands in the Mississippi Valley enter the Gulf of Mexico, creating a massive algal bloom covering some 16,000 square kilometers. As the blooms die off, this area-roughly the size of New Jersey-is so deprived of oxygen that no fish survive.

  Lester R. Brown

  Summer, Squares, Oxygen

  Lester R. Brown, Michael Renner (2014). “Vital Signs 1999-2000: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future”, p.25, Routledge

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• To restate an old law - when a man bites a fish, that's good, but when a fish bites a man, that's bad. This is one way of saying it's all right if man kills an animal, but if an animal attacks man, the act is reprehensible.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Animal, Men, Law

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• In life as in water, when we curl up or flail we sink. When we spread and go still, we are carried by the largest sea of all: the sea of grace that flows steadily beneath the turmoil of events. And just as fish can't see the ocean they live in, we can't quite see the spirit that sustains us.

  Mark Nepo

  Ocean, Sea, Water

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.87, Conari Press

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• But really, anybody could die any day, whether you were ready or not. It could be your pet fish or your sister or you. Nothing is the same forever. Maybe all the people on Earth are God's little pet fish. God lives such a long time that people's lives probably seem really short to him. He watches them swim for a little while, and then they stop swimming.

  Suzanne LaFleur

  Swimming, Long, People

  Suzanne LaFleur (2009). “Love, Aubrey”, p.242, Wendy Lamb Books

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