Fishing Quotes

One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing

I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

Fishing in rainy conditions may make fisherman seem crazy to the great mass of unimaginative people, but then few fishermen care what they think

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly.

Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.

Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.

Aging is for people who don't know any better.

Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time.

Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.

The two best times to fish is when it's raining and when it ain't.

Accurately recalling an entire day of fishing is like trying to push smoke back down a chimney, so you settle on these specific moments.

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.

Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.

The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.

The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen.

If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.

Never leave fish to find fish.

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

Teach all men to fish, but first teach all men to be fair. Take less, give more. Give more of yourself, take less from the world. Nobody owes you anything, you owe the world everything.

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.

... To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take.

Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.

Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.

One fish. Two fish. Red fish. Blue fish. Black fish. Blue fish. Old fish. New fish. This one has a little star. This one has a little car. Say! What a lot of fish there are.

But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.

Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.

It's just that the longer I fish, the more I long for simplification and lightness.

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can?

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat drinking beer every weekend.