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.

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.

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.

In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.

Feed the musician, and he's out of tune.

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

The game is never lost till won.

Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern showing a want of breeding or more commonly a spirit of sheer impudence.

Lawyers are: By law's dark by ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind.

Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs

With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

In general satire, every man perceives a slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.

A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.

Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken of the Sea.'

I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds.

I'm going to gut you like a fish.

We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.

Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.

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.

Fish sticks and beef stew that millions of children love to hate.

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.

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.

Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed.

I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while.

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.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.

I deep sea fish a lot.

I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA.

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.

Lately Fish and I have been hooking up more, which is a good thing because it's just been a struggle for me as a bass player to play with someone who's so creative on the drums, and lately it's been really good, especially during sound checks.

Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

I've slowly gone back, later on in life, to fish and then chicken and then, last year, red meat.

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.