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Tag Name "Carp" (17)

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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
Alexander Pope
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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.
Baruch Spinoza
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I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.
Izaak Walton
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They look like to carp going after the same piece of corn.
Jesse Ventura
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Human ambitions are like Japanese carp they grow proportional to the size of their environment. Our achievements grow according to the size of our dreams and the degree to which we are in touch with our mission.
Keith Ferrazzi
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Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon.
Patrick F. McManus
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I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don't have any pets now.
Tom Felton
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Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.
William Shakespeare
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You didn't happen to see your future mother-in-law at that meeting today, did you? May as well milk the effort. Yes, the hormonal carp was present. Marshall! She blew me a new one, as you would say.She ripped you a new one, I correct. The word blow has an entirely different meaning. I suggest you remove it from your lexicon.
Addison Webster Moore
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The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative Christians, meaning people you're not supposed to hire. And these are the people who carp about George Bush's alleged lack of intellectual curiosity.
Ann Coulter
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If a man holds a door open for me or pulls back a chair so that this old bag can sit down, I'm delighted. Women who moan and carp about that sort of thing are stupid
Diana Rigg
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Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities.
Julie Andrews
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It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone.
Ming-Dao Deng
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It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.
Tom Felton
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Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.
William Shakespeare