"We eat fish and fish eat us."

---Dana Scully from The X-Files

"Only the gamefish swims upstream, but the sensible fish swims down."

---Ogden Nash, from When You Say That, Smile

"The fish sees the bait, not the hook; a person sees the gain, not the danger."

---Commonly attributed to be a Chinese proverb

"Away with the superficial and selfish philanthropy of men; who knows what admirable virtue of fishes may be below low-water-mark, bearing up against a hard destiny, not admired by that fellow-creature who alone can appreciate it! Who hears the fishes when they cry?."

---Henry David Thoreau, from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

"So long, and thanks for all the fish!"

---Last sentence the dolphins sang to humans before they flew off to space, from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

"It was always the biggest fish I caught that got away."

---Eugene Field, from Our Biggest Fish

"Here's our Jingle for goldfish. Yes, baked and not fried goldfish. The tasty snack that smiles back until you bite their heads off."

---Lyrics to an advertising jingle of American snack crackers Goldfish

"Fish and guests in three days are stale."

---John Lyly

"You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something."

---Mitch Hedberg

"I should have gone to college and gone into real estate and got myself an aquarium, that's what I should have done."

---Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer and sex offender (1960–1994)