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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God. — Eric Butterworth

The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy. — Sheldon Whitehouse

If you have a fish intelligence, you will be easily trapped in the net. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Why, thou deboshed fish thou ... Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster? — William Shakespeare

Cofishes-other fish in a group, coworkers, cohorts, etc. Shut up, it's a word. — Christopher Moore

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

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish. — Edith Sitwell

You have the subtlety of a wet fish slapping someone in the face. — Jessica Beck

Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time. — Brandi Carlile

If you want to convince the world that a fish can sense your emotions, only one statistical measure will suffice: the p-value. — Charles Seife

There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, 'Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed. — Alexander Pope

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?' — Stanley Fish

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm — William Shakespeare

Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes — Andrew Heller

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

To say time is evil because evil happens in time is like saying the ocean is a fish because fish happen in the ocean. — Christopher Isherwood

This was all horribly wrong. This was red wine with fish. This was a man wearing a dinner jacket and brown shoes. This was as wrong as things get. — Hugh Laurie

He looked like a bored boy deciding whether to poke a dead fish. — R. Scott Bakker

The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish ... because it draws water as its breath instead of air. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Go to a graduation party, put out a fish bowl, and you have a gold record. — Isaac Slade

one of the many prohibitions in the Disney College Program is that we are not allowed any pets - not even a fish. — Katie Hudson

Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Having a mixed background and feeling a little bit like a fish out of water in most places can be a benefit. — Viggo Mortensen

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

I have never played anything live - except for a few special occasions - from 'Fish Out of Water.' — Chris Squire

Isn't it nice to know that you can put a worm on your hook and get a fish all charged up? — Laura Schlessinger

A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish. — Ben Elliot

The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you? — Lee Wulff

The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish. — Marianne Moore

Fish are a renewable resource, and one of the problems we've had is people feel obliged to catch the limit, then throw 'em in the garbage can. — Norman Schwarzkopf

A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it. — Oliver Lodge

For a quick, healthy meal that's also fun for kids, I serve fish tacos: soft tortillas, lettuce, tomatoes, black beans and brown rice. — Kim Raver

The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce. — Ogden Nash

Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish. — Thomas Adams

Some people like being a big fish in a small pond, others a ferocious shark in the ocean, I rather be the ocean. In the end, fish die. — Behdad Sami

For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

MY MOTHER WAS A FISH. That's why I can swim so well, — Anonymous

The fish does not die with regrets because the fish cannot love. I die with regrets, and yet I am glad I am not a fish. — Gabrielle Zevin

Chin up. There are other fish in the sea. It's a big ocean. Sometimes we need to catch and release a few before we find the keeper. — Kasie West

This world is full of dragon-slayers. What we need are a few more people who aren't too proud to listen to a few fish. — William Ritter

A phantom fish, half beaten to death, wriggled in my stomach. — Mike Mehalek

Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss. — Matt Chandler

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. — Kirstin Chen

It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up. — Michael Faraday

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

Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish. — Amor Towles

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird? — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

Satan loves to fish in the troubled waters of a discontented heart. — Thomas Watson

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. — John Steinbeck

Ruling a large kingdom is like cooking a small fish ... — Lao-Tzu

Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We are fish in a bowl, dear. — Erin Morgenstern

The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda ... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda. — Yoweri Museveni

The fish was a twelve-inch rainbow trout with a huge hump on its back. A hunchback trout. — Richard Brautigan

We brought with hus in the ship a cat, a most amicable cat and greatly loved by us; but he grew to great bulk through the eating of fish. — Brendan

About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box. — Arnold Gingrich

We are all, generally, symmetrical: ants, elephants, lions, fish, flowers, leaves. But she was a tree. No one expects a tree to be symmetrical at all. — Aimee Bender

A fish tank is just interactive television for cats. — Oliver Gaspirtz

Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football. — Robert Hughes

His implant woke him at three A.M. local time, when he was, for reasons he never understood, dreaming about dancing fish. — Elizabeth Moon

Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day, give him some horns and he can be a Circus Seal act — Josh Stern

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. — Ann Landers

I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me. — Janet Fitch

As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish. — Craig Brown

When there is abundance of fish, we need help to pull the nets. — J.A. Perez

You should rule a great country As you would fry a small fish- With the least turning. — Laozi

I was under the stars, like a fish is under water. — Shannon Hale

Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress. — Henry David Thoreau

So I went instead and tasted Taki's new white wine. Spiridion! what a wine ... like the blood of a dragon and smooth as a fish ... — Gerald Durrell

I have three dogs, a cat, fish. I'm a huge animal lover. They're amazing. — Willow Shields

. I look up to a calendar full of pictures of different exotic tropical locations that reads 7/13/2011 — Matthew Fish

If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl. — Barry Schwartz

Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease. — Robert Lowell

Fresh seafood reminds me of Hawaii and eating raw ahi fish on the beach with a little soy sauce - instant sashimi. — Marie Helvin

You're much better off to buy fresh fish from a market as opposed to buying something that's been frozen and processed and covered in breadcrumbs. — Curtis Stone

If you have more fish on your wall than pictures, you might be a redneck. — Jeff Foxworthy

Changelings are fish you're supposed to throw back. A cuckoo raised by sparrows. They don't quite fit anywhere. (pg. 134) — Holly Black

A fish walks into a bar. The bartender says, "What will it be?" The fish croaks, "Water. — Various

I am a pisces, a fish out of water, searching for a way back home. — James Kidd

If it smells like fish its a dish. If it smells like cologne leave it alone. — Andrew Dice Clay

Don't complain about the people that are drawn to you. Maybe if you change your bait, you'll catch a different fish. — Jasmine J. Anderson

Someone fish out dear Amren before she catches a cold. — Sarah J. Maas

A seagull flying beautifully is heaven; a seagull hunting an innocent fish is hell! Existence is heaven and hell, joy and horror! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment. — Patrick Stewart

The flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea at Acre is not similar to the flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea in Spain. — Rashi

I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish. — D.H. Lawrence

Fish gotta swim, bird gotta fly, werewolf gotta have a pack?" I said wryly. — Carrie Vaughn

Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though it's not legal. — Paul Watson

CAN'T TAN PON IT LONG ... NAW EAT NO YAM ... NO STEAM FISH ... NOR NO GREEN BANANA
BUT DOWN IN JAMAICA WE GIVE IT TO YOU HOT LIKE A SAUNA.. — Sean Paul

He missed you
like a fish in a bowl
misses the open sea. — Catherynne M Valente

As far as I can ascertain the reasons for missing a rising fish come from faulty reactions. When we miss a fish we are either too fast or too slow — Ray Bergman

I believe there's a job in the fish factory for me. That's enough to get me through every audition. — Sophie Kennedy Clark

Just behind his jaw bones a tiny movement was perceptible, like the movement of gills in a fish. — John Collier

A very ancient and fish-like smell. — William Shakespeare

Galen, who forgot this little thing called "tact" when he accused my mom of being a runaway fish-princess. — Anna Banks

Any creature, even one as unassuming as a fish, can become something mighty. When they courageously endure their trials, they meet their destiny. — Colleen Houck

And the new day was a great big fish — Terry Pratchett

It was really weird when I heard my voice coming out of a fish. — Alexander Gould

There is a moment during every fight with a strong fish when you wonder whether it or you will win the battle. — Fennel Hudson

Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond? — Lisi Harrison