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Life is short - Fish hard! Here are some quotes for encouragement (as if any fisherman needed it).P.S. New quotes are added to the
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All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm. --Herb Shriner |
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned. --Izaak Walton |
"A bad day's fishing is better than a good day at work." --Anonymous |
"He fishes well who uses a golden hook." --Latin Proverb |
"The two best times to fish is when it's rainin' and when it ain't." --Patrick F MacManus |
"The difference between fly fishers and worm dunkers is the quality of their excuses." --Anonymous |
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." --Chinese Proverb |
"There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot." --Steven Wright |
To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.--Ernest Hemingway |
"Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate." --Izaac Walton |
I was moved by this display and yet curious. I approached the gentleman and remarked that he must have known the deceased quite well to have possibly lost the opportunity to hook and land the large fish he had raised. He replied "Yes, and if she had lived until next Tuesday, we would have been married 53 years". --Bob Boudreau |
"It is not a fish until it is on the bank." --Irish Proverb |
There are trout in my river whose attitudes, Are quite of the blackest ingratitude; Though I offer them duns, Most superior ones, They maintain a persistent Black Gnatitude. --Anonymous |
"In my family, there was no clear division between religion and fly fishing." --Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It, 1976 |
"To him, all good things, trout as well as eternal salvation, come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy." -Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It, 1976 |
Enjoy thy stream oh, harmless fish, And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts--a wretch--to pull thee out God give thee strength, oh, gentle trout, To pull the rascal in. --Peter Pindar |
"If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere." --Vincent Van Gogh |
"Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout." --Irish Proverb |
An angler is a man who spends rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won't let him do it at home. -Author Unknown |
Fishing is the sport of drowning worms. --Author Unknown |
"There is certainly something in fishing that tends to produce a gentleness of spirit, a pure serenity of mind." --Washington Irving |
"O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?" --Isaak Walton |
"I am not against golf, since I cannot but suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering trout." --Paul O'Neil |
"If fishing is like religion, then flyfishing is high church." --Tom Brokaw |
"Some go to church and think about fishing, others go fishing and think about God." --Tony Blake |
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration. --Izaac Walton |
"If fishing is interfering with your business, give up your business." --Alfred W. Miller |
"Here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling." --William Shakespeare's play "Twelfth Night"; Act II, Scene 1, Line 2 |
"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles." --Doug Larsen |
Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.--Henry David Thoreau |
"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains." --Henry DavidThoreau |
Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn. --Chuck Clark |
There are two types of fisherman - those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish. --Author Unknown |
Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. --Author Unknown |
"A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it." --Arnold Gingrich |
Flyfishing is like sex, everyone thinks there is more than there is, and that everyone is getting more than their share.--Henry Kanemoto |
"When you fish with a flie, if it be possible, let no part of your line touch the water, but your flie only." --Isaak Walton |
"Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up." --Arnold Gingrich, 1969 |
"Calling Fly Fishing a hobby is like calling Brain Surgery a job." --Paul Schullery |
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. --John Buchan |
Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years. --Charles Haas |
The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing. --Babylonian Proverb |
'Carpe Diem' does not mean 'fish of the day'. --Unknown |
"Game fish are to valuable to be caught only once" --Lee Wulff |
"There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home" -- Mark Twain |
Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder: Don't any of these guys ever go fishing? --Dave Shiflett |
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. --Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. |
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. --Author Unknown |
Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish. --Herbert Hoover |
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. --Author Unknown |
Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it. --Alexander Herzen |
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. --Chinese Proverb |
Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught. --Author Unknown |
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. --Don Marquis |
It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. --John Steinbeck |
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. --Chuang Tzu |
The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled. --Henry David Thoreau |
Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if he kept his mouth shut. --Author Unknown |
All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit to a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love and hating moonlight. --John Steinbeck 1954 |
Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains. --Henry David Thoreau |
Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing. --Edgar Watson Howe |
To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing. --Chinese Proverb |
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. --Ernest Hemingway |
There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.'' --Alexander Pope |
We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, ''Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did''; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. --Izaak Walton |
Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip. --John Gierach |
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. --John Ruskin |
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. --Karl Marx |
In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch. --Louis Nizer |
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird? --Pedro Calderón de la Barca |
Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish. --Ovid |
Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish. --Ovid |
Never offer to teach a fish to swim. --Proverb |
In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem. --J. A. Dever |
One can think of life after the fish is in the canoe. --Hawaiian Saying |
"With every trip I collect new mementos, though few are collected in scrapbooks. And all who fish for bass across the land collect them too. They are the images from first light to last and from first fish to last. And we'd share them in a minute. Some recall particular triumphs, often preserved in snapshots and clippings, while others we tend to hide, at least until the time we're ready to laugh about them. Daybreaks, canebrakes, heartbreaks, muggy nights, and foggy mornings. A hundred things that worked, and a thousand more that should have. That's bass fishing." —-George Kramer |
For the rich, there is therapy. For the rest of us, there is FISHING! --Unknown |
The science of fishing can be had from books; the art is learned by the catching and losing of fish." --W. H. Blake - Brown Waters |
I like night fishing, eventhough there is a molecule of terror in it. Maybe it is that tiny bit of terror that I relish, that going mano a mano with another predator in the dark. I know it is not entirely civilized, but there is nothing to compare with the sizzle of fear except, perhaps, the rush of being feared. Either condition confirms you are alive. --Paul Quinnett |
We ask a simple question and that is all we wish: Are fishermen all liars? Or do only liars fish? --William Sherwood Fox |
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly? --Isaak Walton |
"The solution to any problem -- work, love, money, whatever -- is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be." --John Gierach |
"If bass fishing was as easy as we all want it to be, then it wouldn't be a sport, it would be a habit." --Jimmy Houston |
Too many Christians are no longer fishers of men, but keepers of the aquarium. --Paul Harvey |
Come follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. --Matthew 4:19 |
When a man picks up a fly rod for the first time, he may not know, he has been born again. --Joseph D. Farris |
"The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone" --Mark Twain |
Big trout will suck your fly down. Count one, one thousand, then set the hook. --Unknown |
"All fishermen are liars except for you and me, and to tell you the truth, I'm not sure about you" --Unknown |
Some of the best fishing ever done, was done without water, using only the printed word. --Unknown |
The man who coined the phrase "Money can't buy happiness", never bought himself a good fly rod!) --Reg Baird |
My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead), will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it. --Koos Brandt |
When you fish, you must wear a goofy hat. --Unknown |
Tourist dollars should not dictate stocking procedures! --Unknown |
Ladies, when you are fly fishing, and nature calls, life is not fair. --Unknown |
Early to bed, early to rise, fish all day, make up lies. --Unknown |
"Fly Fishing is like raising children. You never know what's going to happen next!" --Jimmy D. Moore |
"Now that trout are in my field of study, I much regret that I started life as an idiot" --Christopher Camuto |
Zen and the art of ice fishing is an oxymoron. --Unknown |
There are matters beyond the knowledge of non-fisherman... Forests... can insulate you against the woes of the world as completely as the widest water of an ocean voyage. Quick water and dark firs and the campfire's glow at dusk and the good smell of boiling tea at daybreak are inestimable things." --Federic F. Van de Water |
"Sitting at the water's edge with your son or daughter, fishing lines extended peacefully into the rippling waters, just you and your child....Does it make a difference? You bet!" --Sharon Rushton |
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. --Dave Barry |
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. --W. C. Fields |
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling. --Andre Gide |
Fish should smell like the tide. Once they smell like fish, it's too late. --Oscar Gizelt |
Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes. --Andrew Heller |
I go to Alaska and fish salmon. I do some halibut fishing, lake fishing, trout fishing, fly fishing. I look quite good in waders. I love my waders. I don't think there is anything sexier than just standing in waders with a fly rod. I just love it. --Linda Hamilton |
Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. --Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. --Herbert Hoover |
It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. --Hugh Newell Jacobsen |
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird? --Pedro Calderon de la Barca |
The man stands between life and death. The man thinks... The fish is mute. expressionless. The fish doesn't think, because the fish knows everything. The fish knows everything. --Emir Kusturica |
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. --Stephen B. Leacock |
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. --Karl Marx |
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers. --Imelda Marcos |
Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish. --Mark Twain |
You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive. --Benicio Del Toro |
You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try. --Kathy Seligman |
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. --Lao Tzu |
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it. --Lao Tzu |
The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish. --Sam Snead |
Each person has his own safe place-running, painting, swimming, fishing, weaving, gardening. The activity itself is less important than the act of drawing on your own resources. --Barbara Gordon |
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. --Herbert Hoover |
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. --Doug Larson |
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. --Don Marquis |
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