Fishes Quotes
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
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I've slowly gone back, later on in life, to fish and then chicken and then, last year, red meat.
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Two fish in a tank, one says to the other - you drive I'll man the guns.
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My big fish must be somewhere.
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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.'
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The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.
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At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria that are thermophilic and can survive at the steam vent heat that would otherwise produce, if fish were there, sous-vide cooked fish, nevertheless, have managed to make that a hospitable environment for them.
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This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo; Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; All these you eat at Terre's tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.
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You are very fortunate to be assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe on Chesapeake Bay; it is just the season for soft shelled crabs, and hog fish have just come in, and they are the most delicious panfish you ever ate.
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A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.
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A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.
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Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of.
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One morning I was reading the story of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of bread and two fishes. 'Let me have them,' said Jesus. He asked for all. He took them, said the blessing, and broke them before He gave them out. I remembered what a chapel speaker...had said: 'If my life is broken when given to Jesus, it is because pieces will feed a multitude, while a loaf will satisfy only a little lad.'
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I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.
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With sushi, it is all about balance. Sometimes they cut the fish too thick, sometimes too thin. Often the rice is overcooked or undercooked. Not enough rice vinegar or too much.
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A man ... needs to get out in the open air and sweat and blow off the stink.
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Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.
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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.
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My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.
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my thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.
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Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale.
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Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.
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I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.
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Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.
