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My hovercraft is full of eels. -- John Cleese
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
Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes. -- Robert Jordan
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
Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel. -- Thomas More
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics. -- Anne Carson
Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think. -- James De La Vega
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. -- Leonardo da Vinci
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
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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style. -- Alain de Botton
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
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. -- Tracy Morgan
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
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
The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to get your hands on the why of it is like trying to pick an eel out of a tub of water. -- W. C. Fields
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 apartments are made for eels. -- Cary Fukunaga
I eat cold eels and think distant thoughts. -- Jack Johnson
I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan. -- Octavia Spencer
It's like going to the zoo when you come to my house. I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. -- Tracy Morgan
She is drawn to the river, and all its hideous, dead-eyed treasures: rot-bloated cats, and cold-meat corpses of unwanted infants, eels plucking at their tender fingers and toes. -- Emmanuelle de Maupassant

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