fish philosophy quotes

Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host. ~Fred Allen



When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. ~William Shakespeare



My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms - will it return to my body when they scatter? ~Kotomichi



It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~Herman Melville



The most difficult part of attaining perfection is finding something to do for an encore. ~Author Unknown



A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. ~Proverbs 16:9



A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



"I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all," Teddy said. "It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean. ~J.D. Salinger, "Teddy," 1954



More men are killed by overwork than the importance of this world justifies. ~Rudyard Kipling



Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up. ~Bill Vaughn



A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. ~Arthur Miller



The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. ~e.e. cummings



Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again after moments or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends. ~Richard Bach



The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears. ~Arabian Proverb



In the life we might have lived, the years never pass. On the person we might have been, time never leaves its mark. How different would seem our might-have-beens if we could picture them as would-be-nows. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Ah gravity, thou art a heartless bitch. ~From the television show The Big Bang Theory, written by Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady, Robert Cohen, and Dave Goetsch, "The Big Bran Hypothesis"



Sisters are blossoms in the garden of life. ~Author Unknown



Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account? ~Jean Paul Richter



No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. ~Jack Kerouac



I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell. ~Alec Yuill Thornton