Angling Quotes - Page 2

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

  Tony Horton

  Fishing, People, Aging

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• 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.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Beer

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

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Regret, Fishing, Remember

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• I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution.

  John Gierach

  Thinking, Fishing, Mainstream Culture

  John Gierach (2001). “Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• I only make movies to finance my fishing.

  Lee Marvin

  Fishing, Finance, Hunting And Fishing

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• Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

  Ann Landers

  Home, Men, Sea

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• Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

  Don Marquis

  Liars, Lying, Lakes

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• Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

  Herbert Hoover

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Herbert Hoover (1963). “Fishing for Fun - and to Wash Your Soul”

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• My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. 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

  Art, Father, Fishing

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

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

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Witty, Retirement

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• The best time to go fishing is when you can

  Ed Zern

  Fishing, Best Times, Funny Fishing

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• No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

  John Ruskin

  Powerful, Lakes, Sea

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.336

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  Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Sports

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• All men are equal before fish.

  Herbert Hoover

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

  1951 Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

  George Herbert

  Inspiration, Greatness, Cynical

  George Herbert (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert [and The synagogue, by C. Harvey.]. With life, critical diss., and notes, by G. Gilfillan”, p.317

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• I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

  Robert Altman

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  "Robert Altman: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Years

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• Good things come to those who initiate.

  Susan RoAne

  Patience, Fitness, Workout

  Susan RoAne (2009). “Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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  There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Sports, Sarcastic

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• A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fishing, Hook, Fool

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• As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

  Izaak Walton

  Artist, Men, Lakes

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) 'Epistle to the Reader'

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• God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo.

  Dave Mustaine

  Fishing, People, Bars

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• Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime

  Jimmy Cannon

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.

  John Steinbeck

  Love, Mother, Hate

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.116, Penguin

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• 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.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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