Fish
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The fishing is good
in troubled waters.
—German Proverb
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Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
—Henry David Thoreau
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I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it’s the one thing I can think of that probably doesn’t.
—John Gierach
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I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.
—Robert Altman
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A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
—Gloria Steinem
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Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
—Benjamin Franklin
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
—Mark Twain
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Poem: At the Fish Markets, Banda Aceh
Poem: Fishing on the Susquehanna in July
Poem: Night Fishing, Lake Polly
Poem: Catalogue of Strange Fish
Poem: Sharks at the New York Aquarium
Poem: Here Are Some Thorns, Splinters, Fishbones
Poem: Through the Ears of a Fish
Poem: About the Teeth of Sharks
Choral reef · ‘just like birds’