Wet Fish Quotes

#1. I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small water seeping upward, The tight grains parting at last. When sprouts break out, Slippery as fish, I quail, lean to beginnings, sheath-wet.

Theodore Roethke

#2. For this form of fishing (with a wet fly), the rod is no longer a shooting machine but a receiving post, with super-sensitive antennae, capable of registering immediately the slightest reaction of the fish to the fly.

Charles Ritz

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

Douglas Adams

#4. He had never seen fly-fishing like this before. There were wet flies, and there were dry flies, but this fly augured into the water with a saw-toothed whine and dragged the fish out backwards.

Terry Pratchett

#5. The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.

John Heywood

#6. The fish does not know it is wet. America is immersed in violence. The violence is in our souls. The enemy is within.

Bryant McGill

#7. It was nearly five before Jake walked in. He was sunburnt, wet, and smelled faintly of fish. Sexy as hell. Don't ask me to explain.

Josh Lanyon

#8. Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet.

William Shakespeare

#9. The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#10. Evolutionarily speaking, there is seldom any mystery in why we seek the goals we seek - why, for example, people would rather make love with an attractive partner than get a slap on the belly with a wet fish.

Steven Pinker

#11. A pelican that is wet walks with a gaited limp, and the dry fish swims alone.

Bill Cosby

#12. Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see someone young and happy, you can hit them as hard as you can across the face.

Richard Griffiths

#13. I love the water. Everything about it. Smelling the humidity in the air, seeing the mist rise in the morning, feeling the dew-wet grass on my bare feet. I love watching the fish jump and the geese land. We even have an eagle here that circles every so often.

Lori Foster

#14. A pelican that is wet walks with a gated limp, but a dry fish swims alone.

Bill Cosby

#15. 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

#16. You have the subtlety of a wet fish slapping someone in the face.

Jessica Beck