“One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
“One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
“In Heraclitus' river
a fish has imagined the fish of all fish”
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"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.
Jacob Rees-Mogg (1969) British politician
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) <br class="br">2021
“If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.”
Zane Grey (1872–1939) American novelist
Tales of Southern Rivers (1924).
“I want to get out in the water. I wanted to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.”
Sylvia Earle (1935) American oceanographer
Interview: Sylvia Earle Undersea Explorer http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/printmember/ear0int-1, Academy of Achievement, January 27, 1991
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"In Heraclitus' River"
Poems New and Collected (1998), Salt (1962)
“This next song is about… fish… just one singular fish… he was a lonely fish, but he died happy.”
Daniel Johns (1979) Australian musician
31st of August, 2007 at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, introducing "Tuna in the brine"
On Stage
“The salmon may be cited as typically fish-shaped fish.”
Frederick W. Lanchester (1868–1946) British polymath
Aerodynamics, constituting the first volume of a complete work on aerial flight (1906), Chapter 1, page 33
“We are like fish
In this vast sea.
And Satan fishes
For you and me.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright
"Monish" (translated in J. Leftwich. Golden Peacock. Sci-Art, 1939, p. 56.), 1888.
“It is to be observed that "angling" is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.”
Stephen Leacock (1869–1944) writer and economist
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)