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Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. - Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.Benjamin Franklin
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All men are equal before fish.Herbert Hoover
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You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.Mitch Hedberg
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What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing. - Jay Inslee
What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.Jay Inslee
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.W. C. Fields
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He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.Jose Rizal
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I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. - Unknown
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.Unknown
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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'm going to gut you like a fish.Mike Tyson
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The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'Thomas Sowell
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You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.Audre Lorde
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A great war shall burst forth from fishes of steel. Machines of flying fire, lobsters, grasshoppers, mosquitoes. The mass attacks shall be repulsed in the woods, when no child in Germany shall obey any longer.Nostradamus
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My plant-based diet plus fish is to credit for my low blood pressure, high energy, and robust immunity.David H. Murdock
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.Mark Twain
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Don't be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.Kim Young-ha
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It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.John Steinbeck
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We are the poorest and weakest state in the world, occupying the lowest position in international affairs; the rest of mankind is the carving knife and the serving dish, while we are the fish and the meat.Sun Yat-sen
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Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow.Max Lucado
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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.Soren Kierkegaard
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A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city.Herb Caen
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When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.Constantin Brancusi
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When I fish, I stop thinking about anything else. But truth be told, if you want to declare victories, I can tell you the fish have won a lot more than I have. It's interesting that something with a brain the size of a fish's can outsmart us humans, who think we are el supremo.Norman Schwarzkopf
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I can't think of anything I regret. Everything I've done, I've enjoyed doing. I've had five husbands, four children. I've done it all, but mainly I've enjoyed studying fish and being underwater with them, being in their natural habitat, looking at the fish and the fish looking at me.Eugenie Clark
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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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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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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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It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.Kurt Cobain
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.Gloria Steinem
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Being a fish out of water is tough, but that's how you evolve.Kumail Nanjiani
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.Ovid
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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.Norman Schwarzkopf
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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.Malcolm Muggeridge
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You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish. - Darrell Royal
You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.Darrell Royal
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This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.Aneurin Bevan
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Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.Tommy Douglas
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.Magic Johnson
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AnywayMostlyChicken
I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?Douglas Adams
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JudgeWho Am IRain
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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I am not a vegetarian. For some time, I tried to be a semi-vegetarian, eating only fish, birds, and no red meat, but... I don't know if I have an opinion on vegetarianism.Varg Vikernes
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Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.Steven Wright
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A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.Benjamin Franklin
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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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Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.Arnold H. Glasow
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They say the good Lord doesn't charge you for the days you hunt and fish, and I believe that.Norman Schwarzkopf
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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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The sea hath fish for every man.William Camden
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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.Mao Zedong
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Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.Lao Tzu
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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.Mencius
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Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.Lao Tzu
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The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.Ovid
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A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?Drew Barrymore
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Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish. - Ovid
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.Ovid
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To me, the most romantic gesture is a quiet night with my girl. I like to cook for her. I'm a meat eater and a griller - I do steaks, I do chicken, I do fish. I have a broad palate!Taylor Kinney
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No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise. - Lewis Carroll
No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.Lewis Carroll
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Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken of the Sea.'Jessica Simpson
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When I was 16 years old, I went scuba diving in Greece and saw more plastic bags than fish. I wondered why we couldn't just clean it up. That rather simple question stuck in my head. - Boyan Slat
When I was 16 years old, I went scuba diving in Greece and saw more plastic bags than fish. I wondered why we couldn't just clean it up. That rather simple question stuck in my head.Boyan Slat
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.John Ruskin
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