So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.

-Adams, Douglas Noe«  l
  Title of novel.

Our disputants put me in mind of the skuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisible.

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.476, 5 Sept.

Bill was a tropical fish. His native habitat was hot water.

-Anonymous
  Of  William  J Casey of the CI A and his role in the Iran arms sales. Quoted in the NewYork Times,19  Jul.

The Salmon is the most stately fish that any man may angle to in fresh water.

-Berners, DameJuliana or Juliana Barnes   fl.14c
  Treatyseperteynyne to Hawkynge, Huntynge, Fyshynge, and Coote Armiris.

   Phone for the fish knives,Norman As Cook is a little unnerved; You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes And I must have things daintily served.

-Betjeman, SirJohn
  A Few Late Chrysanthemums,'How To Get On In Society'.

Thisisland ismademainlyofcoaland surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and a shortage of fish at the same time.

-Bevan, Aneurin
  Speech at Blackpool. Reported in the Daily Herald, 25 May.

   Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts untoyourchildren, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 7:9^11.

And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke 24:42.

Fish (fly-replete, in depth of June, Dawdling away their wat'ry noon).

-Brooke, Rupert Chawner
  'Heaven'.

Fish say, they have their stream and pond; But is there anything beyond?

-Brooke, Rupert Chawner
  'Heaven'.

Unfading moths, immortal flies, And the worm that never dies. And in that heaven of all their wish, There shall be no more land, say fish.

-Brooke, Rupert Chawner
  'Heaven'.

Or would you like to swing on a star Carry moonbeams home in a jar And be better off than you are Or would you rather be a fish?

-Burke,Johnny
  Swinging on a Star, sung by Bing Crosby in the film Going My  Way. Music by  Jimmy Van Heusen.

Any performance is discussable from the standpoint of what it attains or what it misses.Comprehensiveness can be discussed as superficiality, intensiveness as stricture, tolerance as uncertaintyöand the poor pedestrian abilities of a fish are clearly explainable in terms of his excellence as a swimmer. A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.

-Burke, Kenneth
  Permanence and Change.

Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.

-Dodgson
Through the Looking-Glass, ch.9,'Queen  Alice'.

Ann, Ann! Come! quick as you can! There's a fish that talks In the frying pan.

-de la Mare,Walter
  'Alas,  Alack'.

I never lost a little fish.Yes, I am free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught that got away.

-Field, Eugene
Attributed.

What female heart can gold despise? What cat's averse to fish?

-Gray,Thomas
  Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes, l.23^4.

Fish got to swim and birdsgot to fly I got to love one man till I die Can't help lovin'dat man of mine.

-Hammerstein, Oscar, II
  Song from Show Boat (music by  Jerome Kern).

   He had gone miles away For he drank like a fish Nightly, naturally Swimming towards the lure Of warm lit-up places.

-Heaney, SeamusJustin
  Field Work,'Casualty'.

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily lifewithout mingling with it, casts its wealthtoright and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

-Herzen, Alexander Ivanovich
  Notebook entry, collected in Byloe i dumy (My Past and Thoughts), vol.3 (published1861^7, translated by Constance Garnett,1924).