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“Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler.”

Way Enough Seems Running Dies Forget Battle Mouths Advantage Fishes Extremes Get Away Leap Panic Hook Belly Anglers

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.”

Needs Stories Chance Morning Sea Taste Mouths Rivers Fishes Newspapers Boat Lakes Fishing Every Morning Fisherman

Author:Ed Zern

“Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace.”

Moving Sea Events Taught Mouths Rivers Fishes Boat Beach Lakes Fishing Pace Impatience Impotence

Author:Tony Bishop

“It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists have both upper and lower plates.”

Easy Sea Mouths Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Plates Tourists

Author:Ed Zern

“Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!”

Men Lucky Mouths Luck Fishes Come Up Arabian Nile Lucky Man

Author:Nathaniel Parker Willis

“Throw a lucky man into water and he'll surface with a fish in his mouth.”

Men Water Lucky Mouths Fishes Surface Lucky Man

Author:Julian Tuwim

“No pills, not even aspirin, and certainly no supplements ever enter my mouth - everything I need comes from my fish and vegetarian diet, which incorporates many different kinds of fruit and vegetables every week.”

Needs Kind Different Week Mouths Fruit Fishes Diets Vegetarian Vegetables Different Kinds Pills Supplements Aspirin Fruits And Vegetables Vegetarian Diet

Author:David H. Murdock

“If you visit American city, You will find it very pretty. Just two things of which you must beware: Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air. Pollution, pollution, They got smog and sewage and mud. Turn on your tap and get hot and cold running crud. See the halibuts and the sturgeons Being wiped out by detergents. Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly, But they don't last long if they try. Pollution, pollution, You can use the latest toothpaste, And then rinse your mouth with industrial waste.”

“Let the mouth also fast from disgraceful speeches and railings. For what does it profit if we abstain from fish and fowl and yet bite and devour our brothers and sisters? The evil speaker eats the flesh of his brother and bites the body of his neighbor.”

Ifs Doe Body Evil Brother Speech Mouths Fishes Profit Neighbor Flesh Bites Speakers Brothers And Sisters Disgraceful Fowl

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in a corner of his mouth. He didn't fight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I stared and stared and victory filled up the little rented boat from the pool of bilge where oil had spread a rainbow around the rusted engine to the bailer rusted orange, the sun-cracked thwarts the oarlocks on their strings, the gunnels-until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go.”

Littles Fighting Water Half Sun Victory Mouths Filled Caught Fishes Corners Spread Oil Boat Strings Engines Pool Rainbow Orange Hook Cracked Filled Up

Author:Elizabeth Bishop

“Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet the air.”

Mean Air Mouths Fishes Surface Awe

Author:Mark Nepo

“Angel?" I said. "Baby penguins eat a regurgitated mixture of partially digested fish, krill, and an oily substance form their fathers' stomachs. Are you willing to eat a bunch of raw fish and krill, and then barf it back up into a baby penguin's cute, cheeping mouth? Like, every hour?" Sometimes my crushing logic astounds even me.”

Said Sometimes Form Father Hours Willing Baby Mouths Angel Logic Fishes Bunch Substance Cute Crush Mixtures Penguins

Author:James Patterson

“Ah, Evelyn and Vivian, I love you both, I love you for your sad lives, the empty misery of your coming home at dawn. You too are alone, but you are not like Arturo Bandini, who is neither fish, fowl nor good red herring. So have your champagne, because I love you both, and you too, Vivian, even if your mouth looks like it had been dug out with raw fingernails and your old child's eyes swim in blood written like mad sonnets.”

Ifs Looks Children Home Eye Written Blood Love You Mouths Red Empty Mad Misery Fishes Dawn Coming Home Swim Sonnet Champagne Fingernails Fowl Sad Life Herring Red Herrings

Book:Ask the Dust

Source: Ask the Dust

“I’m Hana,” Hana says. “And this is Lena.” She jabs me with an elbow. I know I must look like a fish, standing there with my mouth gaping open, but I’m too outraged to speak. He’s lying. I know he’s the one I saw yesterday, would bet my life on it. “Alex. Nice to meet you.” Alex keeps his eyes on me as he and Hana shake hands. Then he extends a hand to me. “Lena,” he says thoughtfully. “I’ve never heard that name before.”

Source: Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem

“While Leo fussed over his helm controls, Hazel and Frank relayed the story of the fish-centaurs and their training camp. 'Incredible,' Jason said. 'These are really good brownies.' 'That's your only comment?' Piper demanded. He looked surprised. 'What? I heard the story. Fish-centaurs. Merpeople. Letter of intro to the Tiber River god. Got it. But these brownies--' 'I know,' Frank said, his mouth full. 'Try them with Ester's peach preserves.' 'That,' Hazel said, 'is incredibly disgusting.' 'Pass me the jar, man,' Jason said. Hazel and Piper exchanged a look of total exasperation. Boys.”