Quotes with sword-fish

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  • Charles Caleb Colton Virtue, without talent, is a coat of mail without a sword; it may indeed defend the wearer, but will not enable him to protect his friend.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Abdullah Ahmad Badawi We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.
    Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
    Malaysian politician (1939 - )
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  • Richard Whately Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung When animus and anima meet, the animus draws his sword of power and the anima ejects her poison of illusion and seduction. The outcome need not always be negative, since the two are equally likely to fall in love (a special instance of love at first sight).
    Source: Aion (1951)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Caitriona Balfe When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
    Caitriona Balfe
    Irish actress, producer and former (1979 - )
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  • Alexander Hamilton When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • William Shakespeare When valor preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Boyle Roche While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Abraham Cowley Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discover
    And not to me, thy no less silent lover?
    Source: Bathing in the River.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • John Madden With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.
    John Madden
    American Football broadcaster and coach (1936 - )
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  • Homer Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Oscar Wilde Yet each man kills the thing he loves
    By each let this be heard.
    Some do it with a bitter look,
    Some with a flattering word.
    The coward does it with a kiss,
    The brave man with a sword!
    Source: The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1897)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Audre Lorde You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Gloria Steinem A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Eric Butterworth The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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