Quotes
Quotes about Fish
The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop.
The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?
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.
I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.
The great fishpond (the sea).
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
Self-sacrifice is never entirely unselfish, for the giver never fails to receive.
You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.
Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
Next to the very young, the very old are the most selfish.
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
Execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurp'd, from God not given. He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl, Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.
People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests. Neither love nor charity nor any other sympathetic sentiments but rightly understood selfishness is what originally impelled man to adjust himself to the requirements of society, to respect the rights and freedoms of his fellow men and to substitute peaceful collaboration for enmity and conflict.
When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.
Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin', So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.
Fish, to taste right, must swim 3 timesâin water, in butter and in wine.
But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
