“No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.”
Source: Alice in Wonderland
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English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832–1898Related quotes
“Good walkers can go anywhere in these hospitable mountains without artificial ways.”
letter to Howard Palmer (12 December 1912); published in William Federic Badè, The Life and Letters of John Muir http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/life/life_and_letters/default.aspx (1924), chapter 17, II
1910s
Kelly (1954) attributed to her in: Charlotte Chandler (2005) It's Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock: A Personal Biography. p. 212 : Kelly had mentioned this to Hitchcock during the preparations of the movie Rear Window.
“Modern Philosophers, that wisely keep to sandy shallows, like shrimps, for fear of bigger fish.”
Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 76.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)
“Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.”
“I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.”
Source: The Moon and More
“I have fed like a farmer: I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
“If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.”
Tales of Southern Rivers (1924).
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in”