(1045 quotes found)
“Ann, Ann! / Come! quick as you can! / There's a fish that talks / In the frying pan.”
Walter de La Mare
“In 22 states parents can’t take kids fishing and eat the fish if they’re lucky enough to catch anything because of mercury. Think about that. In 44% of all river bodies and streams it’s not safe to fish or swim. And yet industrial polluters continue to block legislation that would prevent mercury and MTBE from polluting our water supplies and leaving children with debilitating diseases.”
Senator John Kerry
“A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?”
Drew Barrymore
“What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish, ... You know what you should do? Combine them ... eat a penguin.”
Dave Attell
“Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement: but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other”
Samuel Johnson
“Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.”
John James Audubon
“New York's Fulton Street is the Vatican City of fish markets.”
David Michaelis
“Advise the ruler to govern the state as one cooks a small fish - that is, don't turn it so often in the pan that it disintegrates”
Lao Tzu
“ he says. ''It was one of those ponds that are stocked with fish. He told me not to bring any live bait. I got there and he was already waiting for me. He said, 'What's in the cooler?' and I said, 'I brought a couple of beers.' He said, 'No beer on this boat,' and I said, 'No fishing for me on this boat. See ya.' ”
Ted Williams
“A guest and a fish after three days are poison”
Proverb