Fishes Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you.

Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me.

The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Unless he doesn't like sushi, then you also have to teach him to cook.

Is slavery - owner, victim, profit, and domination - exclusive to the human race? Have blacks, Jews, women and children been the only victims of this atrocity? Have not cows been enslaved? What about pigs, chickens, turkeys, fish, sheep? If they’re not enslaved, then what are they? Free?

The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity;

they do not have national spirit...they are just a heap of loose sand...Other men are the carving knife and serving dish; we are the fish and the meat.

In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion.

In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.

The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.

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.

We've got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays and we hate him!

Time is clearly not our natural dimension.

Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time--because we belong to eternity.

If you want to catch fish, don’t throw your net into the bathtub.

If it smells like fish its a dish. If it smells like cologne leave it alone.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.

Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.

I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well.

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

Good things come to those who hustle

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

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money.

'The best thing about hunting and fishing,' the Old Man said, 'is that you don't have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can go to bed every night thinking about how much fun you had twenty years ago, and it all comes back clear as moonlight.'