Quotes on Fish

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

Author: Douglas Adams

If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks.

Author: George Allen, Sr.

The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.

Author: Mohammed al-Sahaf

What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin.

Author: Dave Attell

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

Author: Dave Barry

Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning.

Author: Nellie Bly

Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living.

Author: Julius Boros

Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.

Author: Tom Brown

I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.

Author: Carol Burnett

The sea hath fish for every man.

Author: William Camden

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

Author: Lewis Carroll

The whales, you see, eat up the little fish.

Author: Thomas Churchyard

New York is where you go to catch a big fish.

Author: Jessica Cutler

You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.

Author: Dick Dale

We are also working on the restoration of salmon runs, and we are doing a new process of mass marking with these fish so we can tell the wild fish from the hatchery fish.

Author: Norm Dicks

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.

Author: Sam Donaldson

I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don't have any pets now.

Author: Tom Felton

I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing.

Author: Tom Felton

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

Author: W. Fields

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

Author: W. Fields

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

Author: Benjamin Franklin

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

Author: Jim Gerlach

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Author: Andre Gide

Lately Fish and I have been hooking up more, which is a good thing because it's just been a struggle for me as a bass player to play with someone who's so creative on the drums, and lately it's been really good, especially during sound checks.

Author: Mike Gordon

They may the better fish in the water when it is troubled.

Author: Richard Grafton

We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish.

Author: Jennifer Granholm

I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.

Author: Pauline Hanson

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

Author: John Hawkes

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.

Author: Mitch Hedberg

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net.

Author: Cynthia Heimel

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Author: Oliver Holmes

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Author: Herbert Hoover

So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air.

Author: Rex Hunt

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

Author: Karl Lagerfeld

I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites.

Author: Jack LaLanne

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Author: Doris Lessing

Don't bottom fish.

Author: Peter Lynch

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

Author: Norman MacCaig

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

Author: Imelda Marcos

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Author: Malcolm Muggeridge

I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds.

Author: Merlin Olsen

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

Author: Ovid

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

Author: Ovid

Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long.

Author: Vince Poscente

Yeah, some kids called me fish lips because I had these really full lips. Now I'm sure all those same girls are getting collagen injections, so I'm having the last laugh.

Author: Denise Richards

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

Author: Darrell Royal

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

Author: Jessica Simpson

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

Author: Gloria Steinem

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

Author: Patrick Stewart

I'm going to gut you like a fish.

Author: Mike Tyson

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

Author: Lao Tzu

Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.

Author: Richard Wagner

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

Author: Scott Weiland

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

Author: Steven Wright

Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it's the best movie of the year, hands down. Really impressed with that.

Author: David Zucker