Fishing Quotes

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.

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times, though, it's like fishing.

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

Fish and visitors stink in three days.

There is time to go long, time to go short and time to go fishing.

A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks

Wherever the trout are, it's beautiful.

You cannot lose what you never had.

When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.

I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them.

I’m a country boy, so I really appreciate the country. I love fishing, so I fish between takes on set. During lunch, I go for a fish.

A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.

You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.

I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.

Martha Stewart's a convicted felon and they gave her another television show. What's next, the Scott Peterson Fishing Hour?

I enjoy hunting, but if I had my choice to go deer hunting or bass fishing, I'd take bass fishing any day of the week. I enjoy both of them, but yeah, I'm a very outdoorsy guy.

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout.

Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?

Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has ever improved on that statement.

I like Alaska for the salmon fishing - it's fantastic there. I usually stay in a log cabin with no one around for miles. I like to go with friends, but I'm also happy to be on my own with nature.

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures.

And connected I had been. When the fish changed directions, I felt it. when it slowed or sped up, I felt that too. It's such a raw thing, this shared existence with a piece of bucking biomass.

Datin'is a lot like fishin'. Sometimes catch and release is the best method.

There's more B.S. in fly fishing than there is in a Kansas feedlot.

I don't believe in rock bottom. Rock bottom is like a fishing term.

I only make movies to finance my fishing.

After all, catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves fear and anxiety.

Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

The only reason I ever played in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.

My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away. He always made time for hunting and fishing. He always encouraged me to do it.

We do not know what is on the other side of the storm.

A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.

A lot of people think there's a lot of luck in fishing, and there really isn't.

There is no such thing as too much snow.

The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.

It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture two animals at once for our amusement.

Street Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it.

When you bait your hook with your heart, the fish always bite.

Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys wearing bow ties who wish they were fishing.

I don't exaggerate - I just remember big.

Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.

The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.