Fish Caught Quotes

#1. Every last cast is actually a first cast. The first cast and first chance to catch the next fish. The next time you anguish about whether to make that last cast, forget it - the anguish that is - and cast away. The next fish caught on a last cast will not be the first.

Tony Bishop

#2. When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.

Native American Saying

#3. There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish.

Peter Singer

#4. A beggar who goes fishing may use a worm which has feasted on a king as his bait. And the fisherman may eat the fish caught with that bait. What does this tells us? Well, it tells us that a king may progress through the guts of a pauper.

John Marsden

#5. 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

#6. Whatever sentence I extract whole and entire from this cauldron is only a string of six little fish that let themselves be caught while a million others leap and sizzle, making the cauldron bubble like boiling silver, and slip through my fingers.

Virginia Woolf

#7. But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.

Maxim Gorky

#8. The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leathery covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes. You had caught my leaping heart in your hands like a fish.

Francesca Lia Block

#9. Yes, in the commercial world there's room for both McDonald's and Whole Foods, but in the realm of politics, we're told, it's either Filet-o-Fish or line-caught salmon: only one can prevail - and which is up to you.

Walter Kirn

#10. Secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water.

Tom Sutcliffe

#11. My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

George Orwell

#12. Whether I caught fish or not, just the thrill of rolling out that line and watching my fly turn over has been good enough for me. That and the hundreds of treasured memories I have of this wonderful sport.

Curt Gowdy

#13. Millennia ago, some genius discovered that such wiggles as fish and
rabbits could be caught in nets. Much later, some other genius thought
of catching the world in a net.

Alan W. Watts

#14. It was the blue of the sky that caught him first: a rapturous, painfully pure spike of color that hooked his eyes like fish and reeled them upward into the heights.

Josh Ritter

#15. They did not know that the quicker a fresh-water fish is on the fire after he is caught the better he is;

Mark Twain

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

Steven Wright

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

Merlin Olsen

#18. Love is the net where hearts are caught like fish.

Muhammad Ali

#19. Only when the last tree is cut; only when the last river is polluted; only when the last fish is caught; only then will they realize that you cannot eat money." The Cree Indians

Terry Ross

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

Ann Landers

#21. Testing her sexuality, she thinks she's caught a beautiful fish, when in reality, she's netted a shark.

Tammara Webber

#22. [Lunch] was composed of one of the fish she had caught, evidently rescued from Mogget. This had been grilled with ginger, pepper, and some spice she didn't know, set atop a salad of grains and greenleaf, accompanied by a lightly sparkling clear wine she had to admit was delicious and refreshing.

Garth Nix

#23. I'm a passionate, hardcore fisherman. Biggest fish I caught? A 200-pound tarpon.

Dwayne Johnson

#24. Only when the last leaf has fallen, the last tree has died, and the last fish been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money.

E.L. James

#25. Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

Henry Ward Beecher

#26. The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.

Paul Watson

#27. at the Tangalooma Island Resort in Australia, where wild bottlenoses are regularly fed fish by people standing in the shallows, biologists have documented - on twenty-three occasions - the dolphins reciprocating, swimming up to offer freshly caught tuna, eels, and octopi as gifts.

Susan Casey

#28. I record my radio show, and my staff makes me a nice lunch in the kitchen, usually fish - whatever's freshest and line-caught - and a salad. I drink water and herbal tea, a blend of catnip, elderberry, and horehound.

Martha Stewart

#29. I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.

Jack Nicklaus

#30. Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.

Ivan Turgenev

#31. The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten the words, so that I can talk to him?

Zhuangzi

#32. Death is like a fisherman who has caught a fish in his net and leaves it for a time in the water: the fish still swims about, but the net surrounds it, and the fisherman will take it when he wishes.

Ivan Turgenev

#33. Newspaper stories were like newly caught fish, worthy of attention only for as long as they remained fresh, which was not very long at all. They

John Connolly

#34. The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

Eugene Field

#35. Fish rule the waters,
but can be caught using worms.
Birds rule the air,
but can be caught using grain.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#36. The effort flops like a just-caught fish inside her. A brief burst of possibility as the name is typed onto the screen, as she clicks to activate the search. Hope thrashing in the process of turning cold.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#37. I was a freshly caught fish who only wanted to be put back in familiar waters. - Shannon Webb-Campbell to -----, 2009 (age 26)

David Eso

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

Darrell Royal

#39. 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

#40. But for those who need a system, Chuang Tzu offers the reminder that the fish trap is only needed to catch the fish; once the fish is caught the fish trap is no longer needed so much the better if the fish can be caught without the trap.

Ray Grigg

#41. If you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself

Meg Cabot

#42. Working with Tracy Morgan on '30 Rock' is really great. I love Tracy. He's wonderful. Well, until his fish tank caught fire - his apartment burned up and flooded my apartment. We live in the same building, but I'm eight floors below him and we had to evacuate.

Sherri Shepherd

#43. The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.

Edmund Spenser

#44. All fish are not caught with flies

John Lyly

#45. Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature.

John Gierach

#46. Fish deserve to be caught for they are lazy. Two million years of evolution and they still haven't got out of the water.

Simon Munnery

#47. He thrashed like a freshly caught fish as the sucking sounds of draining water gurgled from the pooling blood in his mouth.

Michiko Katsu

#48. Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it's boring. But if you site there all day, and you catch one mega fish, you come back with stories that you caught a fish this big (indicates a big fish), intead of this size (indicating a small fish)

Eddie Irvine

#49. Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#50. Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.

Lee Wulff

#51. There are always greater fish than you have caught, always the lure
of greater task and achievement, always the inspiration to seek, to endure,
to find.

Zane Grey

#52. I follow the Dr. Peter D'Adamo Blood Type Diet as best I can. It's an eating and living guideline that understands you as a biochemical individual ... and I find it really works for me. I eat vegetables, ocean caught fish, and small amounts of organic free range chicken.

Miranda Kerr

#53. Going from 'Shark Night' to 'Piranha,' a guy holding a fish on a stick in front of you that they're going to replace in post-production, it's a lot different than seeing this animatronic shark that, if you get caught up in the moment, looks, acts and you sometimes think could be real.

Chris Zylka

#54. One man is proud when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another when he has taken wild boars, and another when he has taken bears ... Are these not robbers?

Marcus Aurelius

#55. Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow.

Max Lucado

#56. Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught we will realise we cannot eat money.

Anonymous

#57. I never understood why you would ever feel the need to shoot the fish in the barrel. I mean, they're in a barrel, you've already caught them. The hard work's done, they can't escape. So if you want them dead, just drain the water out. Why bring guns into it?

Craig Silvey

#58. We caught him," I said. "Thats the fun part." For us, at least. I doubt the fish would agree.

Kathy Reichs

#59. Someone may offer you a freshly caught whole large fish, like a salmon or striped bass. Don't panic - take it!

Julia Child

#60. I'm from Manchester, Mass., so it was lobster, lobster and more lobster! Also, lots of fish that we caught in the summers, clam chowder and roast beef sandwiches. But my mom was pretty healthy; we had a lot of chicken and broccoli and rice as well.

Sprague Grayden

#61. Would the fish have ever been caught if it had kept its mouth shut?

Ashwin Sanghi

#62. I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.

Eugene Field

#63. I walked around as you do, investigating
the endless star,
and in my net, during the night,
I woke up naked,
the only thing caught,
a fish trapped inside the wind.

Pablo Neruda