“ 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- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak. ”
- Jay Leno- Copy
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“ Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant. ”
- Scott Adams- Copy
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“ Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches. ”
- Mary Astor- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ No turbots dignify my boards;But gudgeons, flounders — what my Thames affords. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt, The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt, The Douglas in red herrings. ”
- Fitz Greene Halleck- Copy
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“ However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish. ”
- Marcus Valerius Martial- Copy
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“ Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him of the entire weekend. ”
- Zenna Schaffer- Copy
- 2.9K
“ He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
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“ To me, heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ They used to have a fish on the menu that was smoked, grilled and peppered They did everything to this fish but pistol-whip it and dress it in Bermuda shorts. ”
- William E. Geist- Copy
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“ Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. ”
- Timothy Jones- Copy
- 1.6K
“ If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance. ”
- Ben Kingsley- Copy
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“ Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long. ”
- Vince Poscente- Copy
- 1.4K
“ There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks, no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The warehouse with all those crates, thousands of them, stretching out as far as the eye can see. 227 metric tons of fish from around the world-fish with muscular tails wide as a weight lifter's chest, fish with big, open mouths and shining eyes, fish from deep places and deep dreams. ”
- David Michaelis- Copy
- 2.2K
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