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  • Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature - after the recipe for making eels from flour - is the audacity with which it decides that there is no God, without even having tried the impossibility. If God did not exist, he would have to be invented." But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

    Order   Eels   Doubt  
  • 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.

    Yellow   Lakes   Race  
    Alexander Pope (2008). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.128, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.

    Eels   Two   Tanks  
    Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage
  • Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.

  • If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

    Philosophy   Eels   Flour  
    Voltaire (1919). “Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence”
  • Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell

    Love Is   Eels   Hell  
  • Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

    Mean   Eels   Snakes  
  • Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

  • I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.

    Strong   Powerful   Eels  
  • If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

    Nature   Order   Eels  
    Voltaire (1956). “Candide: and other writings”
  • I have the backbone of an eel.

    Eels   Backbone  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.

    Home   Eels   Plans  
  • I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

    Women   Eels   People  
    Attributed to Edith Sitwell in Life Magazine, January 4, 1963.
  • To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.

    Running   Moving   Years  
    Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”
  • I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.

    Hate   Writing   Garden  
    William Shenstone (1764). “The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...”, p.176
  • How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

    Science   Eels   Library  
    Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.247
  • A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

    Science   Eels   Hunters  
    Tobias George Smollett, Tobias Smollett (1831). “The adventures of Peregrine Pickle: In which are included, Memoirs of a lady of quality. In four volumes. ...”, p.246
  • Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

    Eels   Style   Mind  
    "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, 2000.
  • I have a name,” I grumped, my stomach pinching me harder. “Yes, but it has no pizzazz. Ra-a-a-a-chel. Rach-e-e-e-eel,” he said, trying it out in different ways. “No one will tremble in terror at that. Oh my God!” he said in a high falsetto. “It’s Rachel! Run! Hide!

    Running   Eels   Names  
  • Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.

    Mean   Class   Pie  
  • Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.

    Doctors   Eels   Sweat  
    Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.283, Random House
  • A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes. The '[holding] the eel of science by the tail' allusion was used in 1728 by Alexander Pope (q.v.).

  • Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.

  • I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

    Eels   Pool   Catfish  
    Attributed to Edith Sitwell in Life Magazine, January 4, 1963.
  • Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

    Voltaire (1919). “Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence”
  • Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

    Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.1109, Macmillan
  • Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?" "Not such a waste of time as talking to you!

    Talking   Eels   Waste  
    Georgette Heyer (2011). “Black Sheep”, p.43, Random House
  • Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

  • I eat cold eels and think distant thoughts.

    Thinking   Eels   Cold  
  • My hovercraft is full of eels.

    Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones (2009). “Monty Python Live!”, Hyperion
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