Top 100 Quotes About Fishes
#1. I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.
Rose Macaulay
#2. The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulchre. Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man!
Francis Quarles
#3. There can be little doubt that fishes swimming rapidly do not make respiratory movements at all, but obtain the necessary ventilation of the gills simply by opening the mouth.
August Krogh
#4. The Pike is the meanest and most vicious of fresh-water fishes. This is caused by heredity and environment, or unfortunate social conditions in the water.
Will Cuppy
#5. On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!
Rudyard Kipling
#7. Holy mackerel, mother of baby fishes, is that a bed?
Elle Casey
#8. To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?
Walt Whitman
#9. Fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven
Charles Dickens
#10. Fishing, if I a fisher may protest, Of pleasures is the sweetest of sports the best, Of exercises the most excellent, Of recreations the most innocent. But now the sport is marred, and why you ask? Fishes decrease, and fishers multiply.
Thomas Bastard
#11. Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.
Horace Greeley
#12. Throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things
Charles Dickens
#13. Your friendship with her-it sleeps with the fishes.
John Green
#14. If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.
Douglas Horton
#15. This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo; Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; All these you eat at Terre's tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#16. I read the story about the loaves and fishes and thought about Jesus gazing at the hungry crowd, saying to his anxious, doubting, screwed-up followers: "You give them something to eat." So we did.
Sara Miles
#17. If we had never seen fishes, we should be at a loss to understand how any living beings could exist In the sea.
Allan Kardec
#18. How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spread his claws, And welcome little fishes in With gently smiling jaws!
Lewis Carroll
#19. The seeds of the life of fishes are everywhere disseminated, whether the winds waft them, or the waters float them, or the deep earth holds them; wherever a pond is dug, straightway it is stocked with this vivacious race. They have a lease of nature, and it is not yet out.
Henry David Thoreau
#20. Yes, helping the poor helps keep them stuck in poverty. As Jesus said, 'Tough love thy neighbor as thyself, get your own loaves and fishes.'
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert
#23. I know how the birds fly, how the fishes swim, how animals run. But there is the Dragon. I cannot tell how it mounts on the winds through the clouds and flies through heaven. Today I have seen the Dragon.
Confucius
#24. If you do not get to her time...............He will cut out her heart & feed it to the fishes...." Alice
Kathy Cyr
#25. The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.
Henry David Thoreau
#27. The density of the butterflies in the air now gave her a sense of being underwater, plunged into a deep pond among bright fishes.
Barbara Kingsolver
#28. There's nothing sweeter than a real friend:
Not only is he prompt to lend
An angler delicate, he fishes
The very deepest of your wishes,
And spares your modesty the task
His friendly aid to ask.
A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear,
When pointing at the object dear.
Jean De La Fontaine
#29. Dead before the sun rises, I said. Stars, Bob, why don't you just go over the melodramatic edge and tell me that I'm going to be sleeping with the fishes?
Jim Butcher
#31. Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
Pericles
#32. Aquarium fishes even if they only imagine going to a lake, the windows of that aquarium will become thinner than before.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#33. Fishes should not be taken from the deep; instruments for the profit of a state should not be shown to the people.
Lao-Tzu
#34. The world is always full of the sound of waves.
The little fishes, abandoning themselves to the waves, dance and sing, and play, but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows it depth?
Eiji Yoshikawa
#35. Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, 'Ah, ha! are caught!'
William Shakespeare
#36. The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#37. Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.
George Gaylord Simpson
#38. We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
#39. Fishes and tales And a fisherman's daughter Walks in the rain, She walks to the water To the sea.
Daniel Lanois
#40. An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#41. If wishes were fishes, the world would be an ocean
Jim Ross
#42. His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.
Idi Amin
#43. She doesn't like ducks," Shane said, nodding. "I've seen a couple of dead ducks before my dad fishes them out. He says they died naturally, but I know she killed them. I don't know why, though.
Ron Ripley
#44. Of the last two friends of yours who had the modern mind; one thought it wrong to eat fishes and the other thought it right to eat men ...
G.K. Chesterton
#45. By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.
John Dryden
#46. 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
#47. We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.
Winston Churchill
#48. We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#49. If Eve was inferior to Adam because she was created after him, then Adam was inferior to the fishes, because they preceded him.
Lillie Devereux Blake
#50. We hugged, and my dad cried a little. I don't have a macho-type dad, who hunts and fishes and collects guns. He's sensitive and caring. He drives me crazy most of the time, but I do admire that he's not afraid to show his "feminine side.
Bill Konigsberg
#51. I love you more than there are fishes in the sea and higher than the moon
Nicholas Sparks
#52. It's pretty simple, really, when you think about it: We all start out as little fishes in our daddy's pants, and we all end up a Thanksgiving feast for the worms, and in the meantime we have to find a couple good reasons to give a fuck.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#54. The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please.
Rumi
#55. Only dead fishes go with the flow.. I guess that make me a dead fish!
Shanai Campbell
#56. If wishes could be fishes, even beggars would eat.
Lili St. Crow
#57. One wrong move and I'm sleeping with the fishes?"
Zeus' brow creased in confusion. "Why would you sleep in water?"
Hades looked at his brother like he was a moron. "It's The Godfather...Forget it.
Tellulah Darling
#58. I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
#59. Crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to
Charles Dickens
#60. If wishes were fishes, this whole place would really stink.
Karina Halle
#61. The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.
Saint Augustine
#62. Unlike the Concord, the Merrimack is not a dead but a living stream, though it has less life within its waters and on its banks. It has a swift current, and, in this part of its course, a clayey bottom, almost no weeds, and comparatively few fishes.
Henry David Thoreau
#63. Joy to the world
All the boys and girls now
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me
Hoyt Axton
#64. Some report a sea-maid spawn'd him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice.
William Shakespeare
#65. The rule of fishes is the same as the rule of people: if the shark comes, they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten. They share a single jumpy heart that drives them to move all together, running away from danger just before it arrives. Somehow they know. Underneath
Barbara Kingsolver
#66. Trust in God for great things. With your five loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to feed thousands.
Horace Bushnell
#67. With a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were
Charles Dickens
#68. The rumors of Frank Sinatra's violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.
Kitty Kelley
#69. Life is like that." papa turned once again to the Mekong. "Everything is connected, and sometimes we, like little fishes, are awept up in these big and powerful currents. Carried far from home ...
Vaddey Ratner
#70. Here I am," she said, "down among the fishes where I wanted to be. Nothing like having your wishes come true.
Walter R. Brooks
#71. It was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
Charles Dickens
#72. If I go down in for anything in history, I would like to be known as the person who convinced the American people that catfish is one of the finest eating fishes in the world.
Willard Scott
#73. God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may see all Creatures; Even all that on the earth is to be found,! As if the world were in deep waters drowned.
Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas
#74. Of course they don't function as gills, but five-week human embryos can be regarded as little pink fishes, with gills.
Richard Dawkins
#75. [Jem] looked from Will to Tessa and raised his silvery eyebrows. "A miracle," he said. "You got him to speak."
"Just to shout at me, really," said Tessa. "Not quite loaves and fishes.
Cassandra Clare
#76. Show me a man who fishes in winter, and I'll show you a fanatic. Actually, I'll get the better of the deal, because for sheer spectacle a fanatic doesn't hold a candle to a man who fishes in winter
Patrick F. McManus
#77. Longer than there've been fishes in the ocean, higher than any bird ever flew, longer than there've been stars up in the heavens, I've been in love with you.
Dan Fogelberg
#78. If you have a guru, leave him; if you don't have, get one. In other words, keep changing your gurus! Ocean's wisdom comes from knowing many ships and many fishes, many storms and many waves!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#79. I find you in all small and lovely things; in the little fishes like flames in the green water, in the furred and stupid softness of bumble-bees fat as laughter, in all the chiming radiance of warmth and light and scent in the summer garden.
Winifred Holtby
#80. I love you as big as the ocean and all its fishes. As big as the sky and all its birds. As big as the earth and all her trees.
Susan Abulhawa
#81. One creates ownership and then does egoism towards it, that is why suffering arises. No one is a boss/owner of anyone. Whose things and whose goods? However many fishes one catches from the sea, they are his. After he catches them, he gives rise to its ownership, he creates a liability for it.
Dada Bhagwan
#82. The Press blew, the public stared, hands flew out like a million little fishes after bread.
Enid Bagnold
#83. Ah, well, my mother told me that if wishes were fishes, we would all be swimming in riches. Ok, tell me about these two facilities.
Craig Alanson
#84. Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.
Algernon Sidney
#85. Uncle Vito is going to make his own nephew swim with the fishes?
Kristen Ashley
#86. If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.
Gertrude Stein
#87. But I think that I have already been moving too long in a sphere which is not my own. Flying fishes can hold out for a time in the air, but soon they must splash back into the water; allow me, too, to paddle in my own element.
Ivan Turgenev
#88. If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
Oliver Goldsmith
#89. Even in the lives of fishes, sensation is seldom a matter of one thing or another. Senses overlap. The lines between them often tend to be blurred, and the best that we can manage, by way of description from the outside, is to say that the senses of fishes appear to dominate one at a time.
Lyall Watson
#90. Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
Gottfried Leibniz
#91. I learned a lot from Ana Ortiz, who plays my sister in 'Sleeping with the Fishes'.
Gina Rodriguez
#92. And Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin
she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea
she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males
and dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea.
D.H. Lawrence
#93. I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
Zhuangzi
#94. I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#96. You're a Christian?"
"Of course!"
"You believe in miracles?" I asked, and he nodded. "Then you'd better fetch your five loaves and two fishes," I went on, "and pray that your wretched god provides the rest.
Bernard Cornwell
#97. In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.
Grover Cleveland
#98. Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.
Plutarch
#99. If wishes were fishes, aquariums would be much more terrifying.
Heidi Heilig
#100. Do good and throw it in the sea; if God doesn't see it, the fishes will.
Helen Kieran Reilly
