Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old fish quotes, fish sayings, and fish proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.P.J. O'Rourke
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Remember folks, fish are like relatives. After two days, they stink.Bobby Heenan
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Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.Chinese Proverbs
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No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.Lewis Carroll
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A little bait catches a large fish.John Taylor Wood
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The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.Eugene Field
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Fish in another man's pond and you will catch crabs.Habeeb Akande
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Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.George Eliot
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.Democritus
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He that would fish, must venture his bait.Benjamin Franklin
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The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.Jacques Yves Cousteau
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The fish who keeps on swimming is the first to chill upstream.Nick Hexum
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Dont give a child a fish but show him how to fish.Mao Zedong
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Fish, to taste right, must swim three times - in water, in butter, and in wine.Proverb
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A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?Drew Barrymore
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If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would not have been caught.Proverb
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A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate.Paul Watson
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.Edmund Spenser
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It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.Kurt Cobain
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Fish always stinks from the head downwards.Proverb
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Only dead fish go with the flow.unknown
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If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.Don Van Vliet
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.Andre Gide
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Even a fish could stay out of trouble if it would just learn to keep its mouth shut.unknown
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water.Indian Proverb
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When you bait the hook with your heart, the fish always bite.John Burroughs
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Venture a small fish to catch a great one.English Proverb
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It is better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a mighty ocean.Proverb
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Remember, a dead fish can float down stream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.W. C. Fields
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Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.William Shakespeare
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A fish has no concept of water.Janet Fitch
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There are plenty of fish in the sea.American Proverb
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Empty the pond to get the fish.Robert Bresson
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The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.Kabir
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The last thing a fish would ever notice would be waterRalph Linton
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Never leave fish to find fish.Moses
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If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks.George Allen Sr
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It's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives.Walter Scott
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There are fish in the sea better than have ever been caught.Irish Sayings
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.Maimonides
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Fish recognize a bad leader.Conan O'Brien
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Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. Herbert Hoover
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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.Albert Einstein
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Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.Alfred North Whitehead
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Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.Arabic Proverbs
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Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.Benjamin Franklin
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He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.Catherynne M. Valente
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The tiny fish enjoy themselves in the sea.D.H. Lawrence
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If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.Dan Quayle
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One fish. Two fish. Red fish. Blue fish. Black fish. Blue fish. Old fish. New fish. This one has a little star. This one has a little car. Say! What a lot of fish there are.Dr. Seuss
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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.Eric Butterworth
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A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.George Crabbe
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.Gloria Steinem
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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.Henry David Thoreau
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Fishing is great discipline in the equality of men - because All men are equal before fish.Herbert Hoover
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money.Indian Proverb
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The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.Jim Hightower
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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.John Ruskin
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He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and a smelly fish.Jose Rizal
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Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.Langston Hughes
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If you believe in your heart that you are right, then you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.Linda Ellerbee
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.Mark Twain
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Love is the net where hearts are caught like fish.Muhammad Ali
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Always have your hook baited, in the pool where least think it, there will be a fish. Ovid
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I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.Sylvia Earle
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At high tide the fish eat ants; at low tide the ants eat fish.Thai Proverb
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Fish should smell like the ocean. If they smell like fish, it's too late.unknown
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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.unknown
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Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.William Butler Yeats
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.William Shakespeare
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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.Zhuangzi
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The fish in the deep water do not know how the fish by the river's edge feel.G. Llewellyn Watson
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Fish is brain food. People who eat fish have large, well-developed brains. Peopl with large, well-developed brain don't fish.Macr Anello
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A little fish in a big pond has plenty of room to swim.Irving Berlin
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A fish won't do anything, but swim in a brook.Johnny Burke
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The great fish eat the small.Alexander Barclay
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The fish is the star of the plate.Eric Ripert
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Every fish in the ocean is in danger.Paul Watson
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Fish are not the best authority on water.Jane Yolen
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Fish without wine is like egg without salt.Auguste Escoffier