(1045 quotes found)
“Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.”
Ernest Hemingway
“If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales”
Oliver Goldsmith
“You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut”
Sally Berger
“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.”
William Shakespeare
“Each person has his own safe place-running, painting, swimming, fishing, weaving, gardening. The activity itself is less important than the act of drawing on your own resources.”
Barbara Gordon
“Different fields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish”
Indonesian Proverb
“Venture a small fish to catch a great one”
English Proverb
“Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.”
Henry David Thoreau
“If you want to catch a trout, don't fish in a herring barrel”
Ann Landers
“The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish”
Jacques Cousteau