Top 1200 Fish In The Sea Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential fish with gills, stirred in her womb and would one day become a man--a grown man, suffering and enjoying, loving and hating, thinking, remembering, imagining. And what had been a blob of jelly within her body would invent a god and worship; what had been a kind of fish would create, and, having created, would become the battleground of disputing good and evil; what had blindly lived in her as a parasitic worm would look at the stars, would listen to music, would read poetry.

We all know to eat green vegetables and oily fish, but who does that? I'll have a cake, thanks.

As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish.

Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning.

Odd's fish, m'dear! The man can't even tie his own cravat!

My sister's fish tacos are out of control. I'd give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire.

Would the fish have ever been caught if it had kept its mouth shut?

Brave men die a single death; cowards marry fish-head mermaids!

Once you do a joke and it works it's only good for so long, like shooting fish in a barrel.

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

At 2, I start preparing fish or chicken for dinner. I don't drive. I don't have hobbies. I have no desire to travel.

I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me - how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish?

I eat fish, chicken, vegetables and other healthier foods. I do love a great steak.

Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23 feet. Hundreds of coastal cities will be abandoned. The rice growing river deltas of Asia will be under water. There will be hundreds of millions of rising-sea refuges. The word that comes to mind is chaos. If we cannot mobilize to save the Greenland ice sheet; we probably cannot save civilization as we know it.

But I love fish, cheese and meat, and I eat everything, but only in small quantities if it's rich.

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

Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?

Fish is meant to tempt as well as nourish, and everything that lives in water is seductive.

I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

Awards shows... I just feel like a fish out of water at those things.

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

It is a river of ideas from which I fish out sounds that make my soul happy.

I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.

Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.

A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.

Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief in a spherical earth had a long and illustrious pedigree, as Columbus himself was well aware. . . . "The second reason that inspired the Admiral [Columbus] to launch his enterprise and helped justify his giving the name 'Indies' to the lands which he discovered was the authority of many learned men who said that one could sail westward from the western end of Africa and Spain to the eastern end of India, and that no great sea lay between."

You can be a big fish in a small pond, but you're only going to be competing against people at that level.

While Leo fussed over his helm controls, Hazel and Frank relayed the story of the fish-centaurs and their training camp. 'Incredible,' Jason said. 'These are really good brownies.' 'That's your only comment?' Piper demanded. He looked surprised. 'What? I heard the story. Fish-centaurs. Merpeople. Letter of intro to the Tiber River god. Got it. But these brownies--' 'I know,' Frank said, his mouth full. 'Try them with Ester's peach preserves.' 'That,' Hazel said, 'is incredibly disgusting.' 'Pass me the jar, man,' Jason said. Hazel and Piper exchanged a look of total exasperation. Boys.

I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.

I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish.

You should rule a great country As you would fry a small fish- With the least turning.

If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

Sex can be great in your seventies - no Viagra needed - and it certainly beats fish and chips.

You know, quite a few species of fish require two or more sexual partners.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.

The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.

We hunt and fish or we'll go nuts dealing with the criminal behavior of our elected officials.

The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river.

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

Instead of giving people fish, teach them how to use hooks.

The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

Isn't it nice to know that you can put a worm on your hook and get a fish all charged up?

Whenever possible, organic produce, fish, poultry, eggs, and other products are preferred.

I like to fish. I collect pocketknives. I inherited a nice collection from my father and grandfather.

The Tour de France is a different kettle of fish to what I do, but it doesn't matter what you do - if you're on two wheels you do the best you can and do it clean.

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish.

He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point.

It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.

Fish live in water. Men die in it.Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.

Clary wondered what exactly peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup tasted like.

I like fish, and I also like bear's paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear's paws. So, I like life, and I also like righteousness. If I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go, and choose righteousness.

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.