“It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.”

“The money-grubber has been floating with the great current of society, while the poor man has been swimming against it.”

“… most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.”

“You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.”

“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”

“The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.”

“Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.”

“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?”

“Oh, things are frequently what they seem,
And this is wisdom's crown:
Only the game fish swims upstream,
But the sensible fish swims down.”

“It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him.”