Herring Quotes

• A kind word is no substitute for a piece of herring or a bag of oats.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Oats, Pieces, Bags

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• A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Wise, Pieces, Substitutes

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• When I became a professional and fully understood what was going on, I knew that with all the love and care and mentorship that someone like Professor James Herring had given us, was not based on gender; it was based on the notion that he wanted us to succeed.

  David C. Driskell

  Care, Succeed, Gender

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Surprise, Misfortunes

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.296

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• If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.

  Ann Landers

  Women, Trout, Want

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• Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Husband, Fool

  1601 Feste toViola.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.1, l.32-4.

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• First you must find... another shrubbery! Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must place it here, beside this shrubbery, only slightly higher so you get a two layer effect with a little path running down the middle. ("A path! A path!") Then, you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forrest... with... a herring!

  Graham Chapman

  Running, Cutting, Two

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• Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover;
  A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year;
  The spring begins before the winter's over.

  Elinor Wylie

  Spring, Winter, Pigs

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.17, Kent State University Press

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• Have caviar if you like, but it tastes like herring to me.

  William A. Drake

  Caviar, Taste, Eating

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• We are trying to get marijuana reclassified medically.  If we do that, we'll be using the issue as a red herring to give marijuana a good name.

  Keith Stroup

  Marijuana, Names, Issues

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• There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sea, Mackerel, Mass

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.37, D. H. Lawrence

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• Ah, Evelyn and Vivian, I love you both, I love you for your sad lives, the empty misery of your coming home at dawn. You too are alone, but you are not like Arturo Bandini, who is neither fish, fowl nor good red herring. So have your champagne, because I love you both, and you too, Vivian, even if your mouth looks like it had been dug out with raw fingernails and your old child's eyes swim in blood written like mad sonnets.

  John Fante

  Children, Love You, Home

  John Fante (2002). “Ask The Dust”, p.89, Canongate Books

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• No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Morning, Block, Ice

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• Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Hero, Triumph, Red

  "Remembering the big day: when grad met Dad" by Joshunda Sanders, www.sfgate.com. June 8, 2003.

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• Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Ocean, Science, Men

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• In reviewing films, people get quite liberal about saying "the script" this and "the script" that, when they've never read the script any more than they've read the latest report on Norwegian herring landings.

  William Monahan

  People, Scripts, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.

  Ian Rankin

  Character, Crime Novels, Trying

  "Paperback Q&A: Ian Rankin on The Impossible Dead". www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2012.

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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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• New herrings, new!' we must cry, every time we make ourselves public, or else we shall be christened with a hundred new titles of idiotism.

  Thomas Nashe

  Titles, Cry, Hundred

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• Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.

  Daisy Ashford

  Names, Age, Wells

  Daisy Ashford (2016). “The Young Visiters”, p.43, Daisy Ashford

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• The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.

  Conrad Black

  Country, Israel, Numbers

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• On a boat cruising down east, sardines are scooped out of the holding seine at Eastport at dawn. 'Sardines' may be any of several species of fish; in Maine they are usually small herring. Fish are penned in nets until the boats are ready to load. The fish are taken a short distance to canneries which work round the clock, according to the time of the catch.

  Luis Marden

  Distance, Taken, Dawn

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• I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.

  Jude Law

  Dirty, Naughty, Thinking

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• Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

  Honore de Balzac

  Wine, Cat, Oil

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• Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod, one night sailed off in a wooden shoe; Sailed off on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew. "Where are you going and what do you wish?" the old moon asked the three. "We've come to fish for the herring fish that live in this beautiful sea. Nets of silver and gold have we," said Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod.

  Eugene Field

  Beautiful, Moon, Night

  Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field Vol. IV: Poems of Childhood”, p.44, Cosimo, Inc.

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