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52 quotesIf wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.
Wish and Wishing
Doug Horton
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Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.
Fishing
Edgar Watson Howe
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Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
Sympathy
Leigh Hunt
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Desire
Lao-Tzu
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With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.
Speakers and Speaking
John Madden
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Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
Fishing
Don Marquis
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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.
Opportunity
Ovid
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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.
Action
Ovid
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
Sex
Alexander Pope
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Never offer to teach a fish to swim.
Teachers and Teaching
Proverb
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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Love
Nick Richardson
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Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.
Selfishness
Mme. Roland
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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
Fishing
John Ruskin
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Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.
Work
George Bernard Shaw
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All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.
Fishing
Herb Shriner
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Men and Women
Gloria Steinem
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Husbands
Robert Louis Stevenson
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I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.
Self-expression
Barbara Streisand
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Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.
Law and Lawyers
The Talmud
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Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
Selfishness
William M. Thackeray
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Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
Purpose
Henry David Thoreau
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A fisherman may measure his catch by the size, but when is a man big enough to keep?
Honor
Source Unknown
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Caution is a most valuable asset in fishing, especially if you are the fish.
Fishing
Source Unknown
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When a flirt fishes for a man, she fishes merely for the sport.
Flirting
Source Unknown
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Loneliness
Tennessee Williams
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun