It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

John Steinbeck
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  2. She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish. - Rick Riordan

  3. Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant. - Scott Adams

  4. I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the middle of the room, and then they all shot past me with a rush and out of the front door;... - P.g. Wodehouse

  5. A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish. - Charles Simic

More Quotes By John Steinbeck
  1. What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

  2. It has always seemed strange to me... The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of...

  3. Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

  4. Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

  5. Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of them passionately, but he felt heavy and earth-bound. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>He climbed...

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