Fish Quotes

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

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Mark Twain

Love, Heart, Brain

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau

Men, After, Lives

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
Benjamin Franklin

After, Days, Three

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Benjamin Franklin

Two, Between, Cats

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
Lao Tzu

Great, Small, Nation

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

Feelings, Eat, Okay

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
John Lennon

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
Lao Tzu

Great, Small, Nation

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
W. C. Fields

Water, Drink, Disgusting

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

Show, Fishing, Late

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Gloria Steinem

All men are equal before fish.
Herbert Hoover

Men, Before, Equal

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. Fields

Live, Remember, Dead

Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.
Sylvia Earle

Time, Good, Pretty

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
Arnold H. Glasow

Life, Giving, Facts

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
Steven Wright

Last, Year, Fishing

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

Nice, Rain, Judge

I'm going to gut you like a fish.
Mike Tyson

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
Soren Kierkegaard

Travel, Human, Stars

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
Jim Hightower

Courage, Dead, Cowardice

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Maimonides

Him, Give, Teach

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.
Tommy Douglas

Earth, Ocean, Walk

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.
Kobe Bryant

Around, Getting, Water

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
Jose Rizal

Love, Language, Worse

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Ovid

Powerful, Chance, Expect

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.
Darrell Royal

Might, Fall, Lucky

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
John Ruskin

Great, Powerful, Human

Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken of the Sea.'
Jessica Simpson

Sea, Says, Chicken

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
Drew Barrymore

Love, Live, May

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