106 Big Fish Quotes

Following is our list of big fish quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about small fish.

Famous Big Fish Quotes

Men are like fish; the great ones devour the small. — Hungarian Proverbs

You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface. — Andy Gilbert

In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it's the fast fish which eats the slow fish. — Klaus Schwab

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. — William Shakespeare

The sea hath fish for every man. — William Camden

Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts. — Charles W. Waterman

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

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides. — Scott Weiland

I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish. — Edith Sitwell

Frog in a little pond can be much happier than fish in a vast ocean! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The finer the bait, the shorter the wait! — Frank Gorshin

Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move. — Han Suyin

Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once. — Lee Wulff

There is one fish in the pond, and ten anglers on the bank. — Vietnamese Proverbs

Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

Short Big Fish Quotes

• Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. — Indian Proverbs
• The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling — Kabir
• If you cannot catch a fish, do not blame the sea — Greek Proverbs
• A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be. — Roderick Haig-Brown
• Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish. — Ovid
• Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish. — Ovid
• If you want to catch fish, don’t throw your net into the bathtub. — Reinhard Bonnke
• I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures. — Christina Aguilera
• Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy. — Frank Zappa
• No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise. — Lewis Carroll

Catching The Big Fish Quotes

Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful. — David Lynch

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

They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up. — Daniel Wallace

I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while. — Terry Bradshaw

How did the dolphins and whales get such big brains? They obviously don't need such big brains to catch fish. — Owsley Stanley

A couple of months ago I went fishing with a buddy of mine, we pulled his boat into the dock, I lifted up this big 'ol stringer of bass and this idiot on the dock goes, Hey, y'all catch all them fish? Nope - Talked 'em into giving up. Here's your sign. — Bill Engvall

Small Fish Quotes

Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale. — William Carlos Williams

Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed. — John Gierach

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently. — Chinese Proverbs

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

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by. — Og Mandino

Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power. — Baruch Spinoza

I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know? — Kiefer Sutherland

Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can? — Lee Wulff

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. — Jennifer Granholm

Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Center your country in the Tao and evil will have no power. Not that it isn't there, but you'll be able to step out of its way. Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself. — Lao Tzu

Fishes Quotes

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. — Karl Marx

I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different. — Lil Wayne

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

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein

Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet. — Unknown Author

The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish. — Otto von Bismarck

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after. — Henry David Thoreau

Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish. — Jose Rizal

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God. — Kabir

We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out. — Thomas Mcguane

Catching Fish Quotes

Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching fish is actually the point. — John Gierach

The best fish hook cannot catch limp cheese — Greek Proverbs

We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Catch fish with one hand at the same time. — Thai Proverbs

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

Catch a fish with two hands. — Thai Proverbs

You catch fish with two hands. — Vietnamese Proverbs

Without hard work, you won't even catch a fish from the pond. — Russian Proverbs

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad. — A. Best

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out. — Louis C. K.

People Writing About Big Fish

Name	Quotes	Likes
Ovid quotes on love, death	714	3612
Hungarian Proverbs quotes on folklore, tradition and wisdom	79	1
Klaus Schwab	10	52
William Shakespeare quotes on success, death and love	4052	36000
William Camden quotes on slavery, education and love	13	190
Sri Yukteswar Giri	17	793

More Big Fish Quotes

They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore. — John Gierach

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. — Tom Felton

Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around. — Sylvia Earle

I'm into eating salads and fish. I've always been a big fish eater. I like fruit. I have friends that you have to force-feed them the good stuff. I'm lucky I actually like it. Brussel sprouts and all that. — Elisha

I'm into eating salads and fish. I've always been a big fish eater. I like fruit. I have friends that you have to force-feed them the good stuff. I'm lucky I actually like it. Brussel sprouts and all that. — Elisha Cuthbert

Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he's also funny as hell, and he's so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, he's so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way. — Tom Hiddleston

I'm a big fish eater. Salmon - I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all that. I'm not as big of a fan, but she likes it so we eat it a lot. So I'm beginning to like it more. I don't like the raw sushi. I liked the cooked crab and lobster and everything. — Elle Fanning

I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now. — Shania Twain

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys) — George R. R. Martin

Wherever we go in the world we find other men speaking the same language, planning the same plans, dreaming the same dreams. And one of the big four - brownie, or brookie, cutthroat or rainbow - is the cause of it all — Roderick Haig-Brown

Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond? — Lisi Harrison

When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover. — Paris Hilton

In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond. — Victoria Beckham

Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling. — Langston Hughes

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

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches. — Nick Lowe

There’s a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost, that the ship has sailed, and that only a fool would continue. The truth is, I’ve always been a fool. — Albert Finney

Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues. — Muddy Waters

To me nature is... spiders and bugs, and big fish eating little fish, and plants eating plans, and animals eating... It's like an enormous restaurant, that's the way I see it. — Woody Allen

I don't exaggerate - I just remember big. — Chi Chi Rodriguez

I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part of me. It was a part of my family. — Susan Stroman

I'm a big lover of fish. Cooking fish is so much more difficult than cooking protein meats, because there are no temperatures in the medium, rare, well done cooking a stunning sea bass or a scallop. — Gordon Ramsay

I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild music, and I'm gonna dive in and find as many fish as I can and catch them all. I love music. — Phil Anselmo

The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you. — David Lynch

Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley. — Ann Landers

I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in a community swimming pool — Mindy Kaling

But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am. — Maxim Gorky

The trout that seem to stick in my memory the finest aren't the big ones, and maybe it's because I have't visited all the corners of the globe, but my most unforgettable trout all lived close to home. In fact, when I take out my pouch of trout memories and spill them all on the table, it seems that the smaller ones shine the brightest. — William G. Tapply

The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish. — Ali Babacan

My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too. — Magic Johnson

I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond. — Anthony Michael Hall

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

Since I began exploring the ocean in the 1950s, 90 percent of the big fish have been stripped away. Tuna, sharks, swordfish, cod, halibut, you name it, the numbers have just collapsed. Also, about half of the coral reefs are gone, globally, from where they were just a few decades ago. — Sylvia Earle

The best advice I ever got was from Lee Iacocca.... It was get into a business where you can be a big fish, not the little fish. Get into a business where you can be a change agent, where you can make a difference. — Marcus Lemonis

My big fish must be somewhere. — Ernest Hemingway

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