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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
  • Yeah, we held a junior carp tournament on the St. Lawrence River in New York last August. I hosted that along with a couple of other people. -- Tom Felton
  • 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
  • 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
  • Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp. -- Joe Wright
  • Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth. -- William Shakespeare
  • They look like to carp going after the same piece of corn. -- Jesse Ventura
  • Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon. -- Patrick F. McManus
  • I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite. -- Izaak Walton
  • If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted. -- Rabindranath Tagore
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice. -- Camille Paglia
  • 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
  • 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
  • We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching a shrieking fish. -- Leigh Hunt
  • 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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