„Fishes that tipple in the deep,
Know no such liberty.“

„Joy to the world
All the boys and girls, now,
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me“

—  Hoyt Axton American country singer 1938 - 1999

Joy to the World
Joy To The World (1971)

„We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.“

—  Marshall McLuhan Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communicatio… 1911 - 1980

„One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!“

—  Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991

„Fish! Fish! Fish!“

—  Kurt Vonnegut, buch Galápagos

Galápagos (1985)

„I know the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully.“

—  George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States 1946

Speech in Saginaw, Michigan (29 September 2000), http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-553138.html referring to a widely reported dispute in the Klamath region of Oregon between farmers with irrigation rights and Native Americans with fishing rights.
2000s, 2000

„Gene Ray: Another thing, did you know your father is a fish?“

—  Gene Ray 1927

'Interviewer: No, I did not know my... [laughter]
Gene Ray: You know how salmon swim upstream, the male fertilizes the female eggs laid in the water?
Interviewer: Yes.
Gene Ray: The sperm fish swims upstream just like the salmon fertilizes female eggs laid in the water.
Radio KoL interview, April 9, 2004

„In Heraclitus' river
a fish has imagined the fish of all fish“

—  Wisława Szymborska Polish writer 1923 - 2012

"In Heraclitus' River"
Poems New and Collected (1998), Salt (1962)
Kontext: 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.

„I don't believe in this nonsense about time. Time is just common, it's like water for a fish. Everybody's in this water, nobody gets out of it, or if he does the same thing happens to him that happens to the fish, he dies. And you know what happens in this water, time? The big fish eat the little fish. That's all. The big fish eat the little fish and the ocean doesn't care.“

—  James Baldwin, buch Giovanni's Room

Pt. 1, Ch. 2 - p.31
Giovanni's Room (1956)

„I, the solitary fish, a fish apart
(apart at least from the tree fish and the stone fish),
write, at isolated moments, a tiny fish or two
whose glittering scales, so fleeting,
may only be the dark's embarrassed wink.“

—  Wisława Szymborska Polish writer 1923 - 2012

"In Heraclitus' River"
Poems New and Collected (1998), Salt (1962)

„It's absolutely, completely and totally reprehensible. And as you know from the Italian expression: The fish stinks from the head down. But I can tell you two fish that don't stink, and that's me and the President.“

—  Anthony Scaramucci American financier and political figure 1964

Quoted in " Scaramucci: 'If Reince wants to explain he's not a leaker, let him do that' http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/27/politics/anthony-scaramucci-reince-priebus/index.html" by Dan Merica, Elizabeth Landers and Eugene Scott, CNN (July 27, 2017).

„As fish in the water love deep places and wells and are most frequently found there, so wicked men have a great love to carnal security and have no will to strive against the stream. Fish love deep places best where there is least noise. Oh, how careful are natural men to keep all quiet, that there may be nothing to disturb them in their rest in sin! They love to be secure which is their destruction. O my soul, beware of carnal security, of being secure, though plunged over head and ears in sin.“

—  Thomas Boston Scottish church leader, theologian and philosopher 1676 - 1732

The Art of Manfishing, First published 1699.
Primary Sources

„It's like catching a fish, you know what I mean? It's the fish that's beautiful, not the fisherman. And I think whoever hasn't understood that attitude in Queens is not here any more. And if I ever think the fisherman's better than the fish, I hope someone fuckin' fires me too.“

—  Josh Homme American musician 1973

" Dazed & Confused Magazine | Josh Homme | Sept'10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf8MQqPIroc", Dazed & Confused Magazine (September 2010)

„This next song is about… fish… just one singular fish… he was a lonely fish, but he died happy.“

—  Daniel Johns Australian musician 1979

31st of August, 2007 at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, introducing "Tuna in the brine"
On Stage

„I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.“

—  Jack Kerouac American writer 1922 - 1969

Letter to Ed White (5 July 1950) as published in The Missouri Review, Vol. XVII, No. 3, 1994, page 137, and also quoted in Jack Kerouac: Angelheaded Hipster (1996) by Steve Turner, p. 117

„The salmon may be cited as typically fish-shaped fish.“

—  Frederick W. Lanchester British polymath 1868 - 1946

Aerodynamics, constituting the first volume of a complete work on aerial flight (1906), Chapter 1, page 33

„When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don’t need to see the silverpike to know they are there.“

—  Robert Jordan American writer 1948 - 2007

Siuan Sanche
(15 October 1991)

„Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it… it says "Chicken… by the Sea."“

—  Jessica Simpson American singer-songwriter and actress 1980

While eating "Chicken of the Sea" canned tuna
Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica, "Newlyweds Clean House" [1.01], 19 August 2003

„Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.“

—  Ernest Hemingway, buch The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

„If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.“

—  Zane Grey American novelist 1872 - 1939

Tales of Southern Rivers (1924).