Fish makes no broth. [ Proverb ]
Better are small fish
Than an empty dish. [ Proverb ]
Some fish, some frogs. [ Proverb ]
The best fish swim deep. [ Proverb ]
The fish adores the bait. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
I have other fish to fry. [ Proverb ]
Fish ought to swim thrice. [ Proverb ]
To fish with a golden hook.
No man cries stinking fish. [ Proverb ]
No choice among stinking fish. [ Proverb ]
The gravest fish is an oyster,
The gravest bird's an owl,
The gravest beast's an ass,
And the gravest man's a fool. [ Proverb ]
Perseverance catcheth the fish. [ Wakatauki ]
We have here other fish to fry. [ Rabelais ]
You fish fair, and catch a frog. [ Proverb ]
All is fish that comes to the net. [ Proverb ]
All fish are not caught with flies. [ Proverb ]
The first men that our Saviour dear
Did choose to wait upon Him here,
Blest fishers were; and fish the last
Food was, that He on earth did taste:
I therefore strive to follow those,
Whom He to follow Him hath chose. [ Izaak Walton ]
Be content, the sea hath fish enough. [ Proverb ]
I was taken by a morsel, says the fish. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
It is good fish, if it were but caught. [ Proverb ]
Fish and guests smell at three days old. [ Proverb ]
Venture a small fish to catch a gudgeon. [ Proverb ]
To fish with a herring, and catch a sprat. [ Proverb ]
Venture a small fish to catch a great one. [ Proverb ]
Make not fish of one and flesh of another. [ Proverb ]
Fish are not to be caught with a bird-call. [ Proverb ]
It is no sure rule to fish with a cross-bow. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Money is the best bait to fish for man with. [ Proverb ]
Daughters and dead fish are no keeping wares. [ Proverb ]
Neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. [ Proverb ]
That net that holds no great, takes little fish. [ R. Southwell ]
The doctor is not unfrequently death's pilot-fish. [ G. D. Prentice ]
Birds, the free tenants of earth, air, and ocean,
Their forms all symmetry, their motion grace,
In plumage delicate and beautiful,
Thick without burthen, close as fish's scales.
Or loose as full blown poppies on the gale;
With wings that seem as they'd a soul within them.
They bear their owners with such sweet enchantment. [ James Montgomery ]
He is neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. [ Proverb ]
Make not your sauce before you have caught the fish. [ Proverb ]
Trust not the treason of those smiling looks.
Until ye have their guileful trains well tried;
For they are like but unto golden hooks.
That from the foolish fish their baits do hide:
So she with flattering smiles weak hearts doth guide
Unto her love, and tempt to their decay;
Whom, being caught, she kills with cruel pride,
And feeds at pleasure on the wretched prey. [ Spenser ]
Like fish, that live in salt water and yet are fresh. [ Proverb ]
It is in vain to cast your net where there is no fish. [ Proverb ]
It is a strange salt fish that no water can make fresh. [ Proverb ]
Fools lade out all the water, and wise men take the fish. [ Proverb ]
It is at courts as it is in ponds, some fish, some frogs. [ Proverb ]
That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait. [ Proverb ]
But now so wise and wary was the knight
By trial of his former harms and cares,
That he descry'd and shunned still his slight;
The fish, that once was caught, new bait will hardly bite. [ Spenser ]
A beautiful woman in the upper parts terminating in a fish. [ Horace ]
It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait. [ Proverb ]
The fish by struggling in the net, hampers itself the more. [ Proverb ]
The fish may be caught in a net, that will not come to a hook. [ Proverb ]
It is rare to find a fish,, that will not sometime or other bite. [ Proverb ]
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. [ Franklin ]
That city cannot prosper where an ox is sold for less than a fish. [ Proverb ]
In a great river great fish are found ; but take heed lest you be drowned. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth. [ Madden ]
He that lets his fish escape into the water, may cast his net often yet never catch it again. [ Proverb ]
Bores are not to be got rid of except by rough means. They are to be scraped off like scales from a fish. [ Bovee ]
When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish. [ Plutarch ]
Chance is always powerful; let your hook always be cast. In a pool where you least expect it there will be a fish. [ Ovid ]
Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish. [ Ovid ]
When you have formed your plans, be quick to execute them; one will catch his fish before another shall have baited his hook. [ E. Rich ]
The pleasantest angling is to see the fish cut with her golden oars the silver stream, and greedily devour the treacherous bait. [ William Shakespeare ]
Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings. [ Bulwer Lytton ]
It makes me mad when I go to all the trouble of having Martha cook up about a hundred drumsticks, the the guy at the Marineland says, You can't throw chicken to the dolphins. They eat fish.
Sure they eat fish, if that's all you give them. Man, wise up. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has not the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching shrieking fish. [ Leigh Hunt ]
There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero. [ Fielding ]
Plutarch tells us of an idle and effeminate Etrurian who found fault with the manner in which Themistocles had conducted a recent campaign. What,
said the hero in reply, have you, too, something to say about war, who are like the fish that has a sword, but no heart?
He is always the severest censor on the merits of others who has the least worth of his own. [ E. L. Magoon ]
Though no participator in the joys of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures, in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practice toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him. [ Addison ]