A Quote by John Bachman

I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.

John Bachman

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John Bachman
American - Priest
February 4, 1790 - February 24, 1874

Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.

Plutarch

The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.

Henry David Thoreau

Even in the lives of fishes, sensation is seldom a matter of one thing or another. Senses overlap. The lines between them often tend to be blurred, and the best that we can manage, by way of description from the outside, is to say that the senses of fishes appear to dominate one at a time.

Lyall Watson

In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.

Grover Cleveland

Show me a man who fishes in winter, and I'll show you a fanatic. Actually, I'll get the better of the deal, because for sheer spectacle a fanatic doesn't hold a candle to a man who fishes in winter

Patrick F. McManus

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Pericles

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

William Shakespeare

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.

Algernon Sidney

The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please.

Rumi

We are lost, lost,' said Gollum. 'No name, no business, no Precious, nothing. Only empty. Only hungry; yes, we are hungry. A few little fishes, nasty bony little fishes, for a poor creature, and they say death. So wise they are; so just, so very just

J. R. R. Tolkien

Daisy looked up at him with the kind of expression that Jesus might have given someone who had just explained that he was probably allergic to bread and fishes, so could He possibly do him a quick chicken salad.

Neil Gaiman

On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!

Rudyard Kipling

Lena's hair was sticking out in about fifteen directions, and her eyes were all small and puffy from crying. So this was what girls looked like in the morning. I had never seen one, not up close.

Kami Garcia

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

John Hawkes

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a young one from itself. No instance of this worthy of any credit has been observed up to the present at any rate, but one case in the class of fishes makes us hesitate. No male of the so-called erythrinus has ever yet been seen, but females, and specimens full of roe, have been seen. Of this, however, we have as yet no proof worthy of credit.

Aristotle

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