When Fellers Go Fishing http://books.google.com/books?id=I-kCAAAAMAAJ&q=%22It+is+to+be+observed+that+angling+is+the+name+given+to+fishing+by+people+who+can't+fish%22&pg=PA147#v=onepage, The Leacock Roundabout, (1945)
Attributed in Instructions to Young Sportsmen (1824) by Colonel Peter Hawker
“One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!”
As It Is: Playing With Fate (p. 196)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)
“In Heraclitus' river
a fish has imagined the fish of all fish”
"In Heraclitus' River"
Poems New and Collected (1998), Salt (1962)
Context: In Heraclitus' river
a fish has imagined the fish of all fish,
a fish kneels to the fish, a fish sings to the fish,
a fish begs the fish to ease its fishy lot.
“They can't concentrate, they don't have stamina, and they aren't creative. They are all fish.”
On women chess players, in 1961, as quoted in "He was more fun when he was in the pawn squad", The Guardian (22 April 2007) http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/apr/22/sportandleisure.features
1960s
Announcing his candidature for the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, as quoted in " Anbumani projects himself as CM candidates, seeks vote for change http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/coimbatore/Anbumani-projects-himself-as-CM-candidates-seeks-vote-for-change/articleshow/48047305.cms", The Times of India (13 July 2015)
“My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.”
Source: The Lovely Bones
In response to a question in the House of Commons about the fishing industry losing money due to Brexit red tape https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-01-14/debates/329F59AC-D8A3-464D-AF4D-58C7EAA560C6/BusinessOfTheHouse#contribution-F5E677D7-58DE-4634-88A4-E97E2AA8F7E6 (14 January 2021)
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