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If you cannot catch a fish, do not blame the sea. — Greek Proverb

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that. — Norman MacCaig

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

To fish someone out of the men's loos. — Jojo Moyes

The man who comes to take care of my piranhas told me that if I left West Ham he would kill all my fish. — Paolo Di Canio

David Nugent tore up the Championship but he's gone to Portsmouth and he's a fish up a tree — Paul Merson

When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach — Peter Ustinov

I've always wanted to be able to hold my breath for like, ever, and swim in the water like a fish. — Carlos Pena Jr.

We were staring at the origin of a piece of our own bodies inside this 375-million-year-old fish. We had a fish with a wrist. — Neil Shubin

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

Every fish in the ocean is in danger. — Paul Watson

Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish. — Carl Sandburg

I would give my lungs to the fish so
that they may rise out of the water
and feel the wind. — A.P. Sweet

The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches. — Mary Astor

119. Let your hook be always cast in the pond. when you least expect it, there will be fish. — Ovid

I think about sustainability all the time, whether it's with fish or farmers in Eastern Oregon. — Tom Douglas

A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate. — Paul Watson

The fish had kittens? — William Ritter

Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish. — Hermann Hesse

EAT THE FISH, BITCH! — Tracy Letts

I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish. — Larry David

My big fish must be somewhere. — Ernest Hemingway,

The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete. — John Heywood

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

I went to England for five months when I was in high school, by myself, so I did experience a bit of being the fish out of water. — Jane Levy

We must sit on the rim
of the well of darkness
and fish for fallen light
with patience.
--Pablo Neruda — Wendy Brown-Baez

The truth is, fish have very little sex life. If you have ever tried to make love under water, you will know why. — Ed Zern

There are plenty of fish in the sea, if I run out of women. — Joey Comeau

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

I don't want to stockpile tuna fish and bullets. That's not the world I want to live in. — Richard Martin

Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of. — Henry Rollins

Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast.
In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish. — Ovid

If I don't fish in the morning, I fish in the evening. — Deion Sanders

She'd also called me brave ... unless she was talking to the catfish. — Rick Riordan

I wish it had been a dream now and that I had never hooked the fish and was alone in bed on the newspapers. — Ernest Hemingway,

Just as a fish doesn't know it is wet, so companies often can't see or feel the very opportunities where they are swimming — Pam Henderson

The fish adores the bait. — George Herbert

A slippery fish, flashing scales in the water and a noble fighter on the line, but dull as lead at the bottom of the boat. — Michael David Lukas

Then we went skinny dippin' and did things that frighten the fish ...
Character, Shelby Eatonton, from the movie, Steel Magnolias. — Robert Harling

We in America have gotten addicted to cheap food. The result of that is antibiotic-laden fish, foods that are bred to be portable. — Ruth Reichl

The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air — Rabindranath Tagore

The late bird gets the fish that got the worm. — Brian Spellman

We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it. — Shane Claiborne

We know the only fish that goes with the flow is a dead fish. — Sarah Palin

Marine scientists predict that by 2050 there will be no more large fish left in the ocean if we don't change our relationship with the sea. — Greg MacGillivray

If you catch poisonous fish, throw it back into the sea. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Once upon a time I was such a good liar; I could talk the fish right into my mouths. — Vernor Vinge

The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish we catch.. — Elliot W. Eisner

Then, quick, he flips the fish out onto the bank. It flops and gasps for air, its body slick.
We all watch the fish die. — Ally Condie

When the last tree is cut, When the last river is emptied, When the last fish is caught, Only then will Man realize that he can not eat money. — Eric Weiner

I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy. — Mark Ruffalo

If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water. — Margaret Mead

Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish. — Ovid

Birds and deer are a silly luxury, and all the fish should be floating. — Chuck Palahniuk

The most important thing is to get the fish in quickly and leave it in the water. Forget the hero pose. — Yvon Chouinard

I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish. — Douglas Hofstadter

We must treat ideas somewhat as though they were baby fish. Throw thousands out into the waters. Only a handful will survive but that is plenty. — Anne Heywood

I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine. — Emily Blunt

Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of hypocrisy. — Paul Watson

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper. — Barbara Kingsolver

Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth! — Nathaniel Parker Willis

One day, your beauty will manifest in someone's eye. — Anthony Liccione

The people are like water and the army is like fish. — Mao Zedong

The funny thing about the boy who gave away his loaves and fish is that he, too, ended the day with a full stomach. — Mark Hart

She had the soft presence of a fish hook in the eye. — Dana Marton

In the river swam the gleaming fish, which were meant for water, just as humankind is meant for love. — David Paul Kirkpatrick

Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it — John Florio

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle. — Dean Kamen

I chose you," he said simply. "All of the fish of me turned toward you at once. — Catherynne M Valente

If you are a fish, stay away from the fishhook; if you are a lover, stay away from the suspicion. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shores. — Steve Jobs

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

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

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

People eat the chicken, people eat the beef, they still say, 'Don't kill the fish.' — Nobu Matsuhisa

Love is the net where hearts are caught like fish. — Muhammad Ali

We don't know yet if it was the raw fish. We may never know the cause. — Ann Wright

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

Under the sea, the fish eat us. I know, I know, oh, oh, oh. — George R R Martin

You must have come from very far down," Alice says to the fish, "to have your own lantern. — Ramona Ausubel

I spent 39 days in the Amazon, and I could not even find a fish to catch. — Jenna Morasca

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. — Unknown

My problem is that I don't paint ambitiously. It's all catch and release - just tiny fish that aren't really worth the trouble to clean and cook. — Bill Watterson

The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish, the natural condition of life. — Zhuangzi

Go forth and mutilate fish. — Janice Hardy

In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle. — Sri Yukteswar Giri

Beware of a client who's suing on principle and paying by the hour. He rarely gets his money's worth. — Pete Morin

Why fish in the pond when you live right next to the sea? — Matshona Dhliwayo

He turned it and turned it. They could see quite clearly in the fine tracery of its etchwork the words So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. — Douglas Adams

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

I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory. — Sylvia Earle

I was lucky to live in the 20th century, when gefilte fish could be purchased in a jar. — Barbara "Cutie" Cooper

Phase two of Operation Fish and CHIPs (Clean House of the Idiot Piranhas) — Brenda Pandos

In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish. — Ze'ev Chafets

If you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school. — Don Van Vliet

There are many fish in the sea, but to catch the right one you need God's help. — Matshona Dhliwayo

In order to see a fish you must watch the water — Bodhidharma

Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise. — Kevin DeYoung

I don't get philosophical. Love fish. Love sharks. Keep the water and their habitats as clean and protected as possible — Eugenie Clark