Fishes Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

  Casey Affleck

  Fish Tanks, Remember, Boat

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod?

  Colin Mochrie

  Rivers, Dying, Fish Tanks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I were a man with gills, I would be a fish!

  Ryan Stiles

  Men, Would Be, Stiles

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• The only reason I ever played in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Fishing, Hunters

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• I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

  Sam Donaldson

  Boys, Agriculture, Typical

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• She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.

  John Heywood

  Flesh, Red, Herring

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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• Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild.

  Norm Dicks

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.

  John Dryden

  Flesh, Red, Way

  John Dryden (1755). “The Duke of Guise. A tragedy. Acted by their Majesties Servants. Written by Mr. Dryden, and Mr. Lee”, p.267

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• 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

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• Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Food, Lakes, Sea

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

  Bill Barich

  Art, Lakes, Sea

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

  Lewis Carroll

  Dishes, Riddle

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

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• God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may see all Creatures; Even all that on the earth is to be found,! As if the world were in deep waters drowned.

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Lakes, Deep Water, Sea

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• Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.

  Cotton Mather

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Men, Lakes, Sea

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• Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.

  Alexander Pope

  Yellow, Lakes, Race

  Alexander Pope (2008). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.128, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing there! What is my head cut off? A sounding sea; What is my tail cut off? A rushing river; And in their mingling depths I fearless play, Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Cutting, Lakes, Sea

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• I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.

  Larry David

  Night, Order, Fish Tanks

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• Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries.

  Jim Gerlach

  Estuaries, Percent

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• Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish.

  Jose Rizal

  Love, Animal, Fish Tanks

  "Did Young Rizal Really Write Poem for Children?" by Ambeth R. Ocampo, newsinfo.inquirer.net. August 22, 2011.

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• Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

  Scott Weiland

  Jealous, Swim, Tides

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• Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Men, Fishing, Long

  Patrick F. McManus (1984). “Never Sniff A Gift Fish”, p.20, Macmillan

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• Never leave fish to find fish.

  Moses

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, Moving, Sea

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