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In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess. -- Dave Barry
I have the backbone of an eel. -- Betty White
Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond! -- Sark
Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie. -- C. S. Lewis
Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell -- Bertrand Russell
I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. -- Edith Sitwell
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. -- Tobias Smollett
How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail! -- Alexander Pope
Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel. -- Thomas More
Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think. -- James De La Vega
Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat. -- Arthur Golden
Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob. -- Michael Caine
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
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 catfish. -- Edith Sitwell
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. -- Alexander Pope
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. -- William Shenstone
POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. -- Ambrose Bierce
I had eel at a sushi bar once; it's disgusting. I thought it was chicken. It looked like chicken. It was brown and looked delicious, and I was like, 'That looks safe.' It wasn't. -- Chris Evans
My father always says, choosing a wife is like putting your hand into a bag full of writhing creatures, with one eel to six snakes. What are the chances you will pull out the eel? -- Hilary Mantel

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