#fish

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#brings #cultivate #gain #highest #never

I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#caught #fish #fishing #haven #i

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#lazy #make #martyr #more #narrow

A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#emulate #goldfish #looks #public #public support

I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds. ↗

— Merlin Olsen

#big #caught #close #fish #i

I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl. ↗

— Ozzy Osbourne

#goldfish #i #like #living #royal

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#america #because #complex #down #every

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish. ↗

— Ovid

#cast #chance #expect #fish #hook

My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#calls #catfish #husband #i #me

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones. ↗

— Pericles

#fishes #great #great ones #land #little