All men are equal before fish.

—Herbert Hoover

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Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933. Hoover's term as president was dominated by the Great Depression. His ineffectual response to the growing economic calamity made him widely unpopular, and he lost reelection to...

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Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

—Herbert Hoover

Engineering is a great profession. There is the satisfaction of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realisation in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege.

—Herbert Hoover

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity—intellect and resources—to do some thing about them.

—Herbert Hoover

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

—Herbert Hoover

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

—Herbert Hoover

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Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

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In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait.

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Jim Moore, founder of a famous New York restaurant, had many friends in the theatrical world. As he grew older, several of them died and were sorely missed by Moore. One Friday afternoon he made a pilgrimage to the graves of those departed friends, remonstrating with them for their thoughtlessness in dying. When he got to George M. Cohan's grave, he took out a parcel of fish and thumped it against the headstone. "In case you don't know," he shouted, "today's Friday, and I just want you to see what you're missing.

—Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

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Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

—P. J. O'Rourke

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It gives one a feeling of confidence to see nature still busy with experiments, still dynamic, and not through nor satisfied because a Devonian fish managed to end as a two-legged character with a straw hat. There are other things brewing and growing in the oceanic vat. It pays to know this. It pays to know that there is just as much future as there is past. The only thing that doesn't pay is to be sure of man's own part in it. There are things down there still coming ashore.

—Loren Eiseley

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