"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

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
— Laozi

"I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the middle of the room, and then they all shot past me with a rush and out of the front door; and all that was left of the mobscene was the head of a whacking big fish, lying on the carpet and staring up at me in a rather austere sort of way, as if it wanted a written explanation and apology."
— P.G. Wodehouse

"I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don’t like eating fish. And I know that's very popular out there in Africa."
— Britney Spears

"A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity."
— George Bernard Shaw

"The cure for unhappiness...It's this: What a person needs is always more than they say."
— Avi

"Once we were blobs in the sea, and then fishes, and then lizards and rats, and then monkeys, and hundreds of things in between. This hand was once a fin, this hand once had claws! In my human mouth I have the pointy teeth of a wolf and the chisel teeth of a rabbit and the grinding teeth of a cow! Our blood is as salty as the sea we used to live in! When we're frightened, the hair on our skin stands up, just like it did when we had fur. We ARE history!Everything we've ever been on the way to becoming us, we still are. Would you like the rest of the story?

I'm made up of the memories of my parents and my grandparents, all my ancestors. They're in the way I look, in the color of my hair. And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think. "
— Terry Pratchett (A Hat Full of Sky)

"I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish."
— Edith Sitwell

"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."
— Scott Adams

"As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip away on the endless current and are lost for ever in oblivion's black ocean."
— Mervyn Peake

"This is fish number six hundred and forty-one in a lifetime of goldfish. My parents bought me the first one to teach me about loving and caring for another living breathing creature of God. Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

"Apparently they died from overfeeding. Apparently I overfed them. Apparently fish are terrible glutons with absolutely no self-control who just don't know when they've had enough and will stuff themselves to death with those innocuous little beige flakes imaginatively labeled 'fish food.'"
— Steve Toltz

"She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty."
— J.D. Salinger

"A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish."
— Charles Simic (The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs)

"Gwynned lies two days westwards; still further south, the weregeld calls. Mayhap with All-Father Woden's favour, my deeds may yet inspire the skalds."
— George Gordon Byron

"I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully."
— George Bush

"I tried to give my fish a bath... but he kept pooping in the water!"
— Adriana Benton