Angling Quotes - Page 4

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

Washington Irving

Fishing, Serenity, Mind

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

Izaak Walton

Art, Fishing, Doubt

Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.28

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There are ways of angling the camera. I don't just use a tripod. The only time I did that was in '88 when I first came out of detox, I spent every day doing self-portraits to fit back into my own skin. I didn't know what the world looked like - what I looked like - so in order to fit back into myself, I took self-portraits everyday to give myself courage and to fit the pieces back together. I used a tripod then.

Nan Goldin

Self, Order, Giving

Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own life instead of living it. How innocuous it all was, and empty, empty, empty! This chasing after yourself, craftily observing your own tracks--in a circle, of course. This sham diving into the stream of life while all the time you sat angling after yourself, fishing yourself up in one curious disguise or another! If he could only be overwhelmed by something--life, love, passion--so that he could no longer shape it into poems, but had to let it shape him!

Jens Peter Jacobsen

Dream, Love Life, Passion

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Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practise toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Summer, Sports, Spring

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Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Reality, Abuse, Favors

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Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human.

C. S. Lewis

Humble, Vanity, People

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.110, HarperCollins UK

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

Izaak Walton

Learning, Math, Fishing

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

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And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.

Lord Byron

Should Have, Fishing, Vices

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2252, Delphi Classics

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I would love to get an international version of Riding Shotgun going, because that's what I've been angling at ever since I wanted to do a travel show in the first place.

Zach Anner

Riding, Firsts, Shotguns

Source: abilitymagazine.com

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And she hates being managed - that is not the word I want. What is it, Maturin?' 'Manipulated.' 'Exactly. She is a dutiful girl - a great sense of duty: I think it rather stupid, but there it is - but still she finds the way her mother has been arranging and pushing and managing and angling in all this perfectly odious. You two must have had hogsheads of that grocer's claret forced down your throats. Perfectly odious: and she is obstinate - strong, if you like - under that bread-and-butter way of hers. It will take a great deal to move her; much more than the excitement of a ball.

Patrick O'Brian

Girl, Mother, Strong

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I`ve not really been angling to be a comedian. I knew comics and I loved them and I loved being funny, but I didn't understand the whole concept of becoming one. My first couple of times on stage, I was like, "This is what I'm doing for sure." I was so excited.

Mitch Hedberg

Couple, Becoming One, Comedian

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It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

Izaak Walton

Wise, Art, Men

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People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen are called crackpot fishermen. This is confusing.

Ed Zern

Sports, Lakes, Sea

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

Roderick Haig-Brown

Fishing, Rivers, Excuse

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Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.

Jim Harrison

Lakes, Sea, Fishing

Jim Harrison (2016). “Just Before Dark”, p.35, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees the inside. The angler only is brought close, face to face with the flower and bird and insect life of the rich riverbanks, the only part of the landscape where the hand of man has never interfered.

Charles Kingsley

Country, Flower, Men

Charles Kingsley (2008). “Prose Idylls: New and Old: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.

William Shakespeare

Lakes, Sea, Fishing

William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.55, Palgrave Macmillan

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A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.

Zane Grey

Philosophy, Lakes, Sea

Zane Grey (2014). “Gulf Stream Fishing”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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It's so silly isn't it? how we grown men take up trout angling not simply to pursue trout but to find some place, some special place, where we feel at ease. a place to belong. Forces, not forms, persist: energy is spent and endures; time does not tick, it flows. God loves a man that smells of trout water and mountain meadows. Which way's heaven, you suppose? Follow the trail and keep close to the stream.

Carey Mulligan

Silly, Men, Sea

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It is quite easy to debase the sport, change its values, dilute its ethics and destroy its traditional associations with quietness, relaxation and the opportunity to think. Angling is not a competitive sport. The fisherman'- s only real competition is with his quarry and his only real challenge is the challenge to himself. Nothing can add to this, but the blight of interhuman competition can certainly detract from it.

Roderick Haig-Brown

Sports, Real, Opportunity

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I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something like this suggests what fishing ought to be about: using the ceremony of our sport and passion to arouse greater reverberations within ourselves.

Thomas McGuane

Sports, Passion, Sea

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My aunt used to say, "It's between me and my god; it's got nothing to do with you." It was a good enough answer for me as a snot-nosed college kid angling for a religious debate, and I still think it's a good way of putting it.

Mohsin Hamid

Religious, Kids, Aunt

Source: www.motherjones.com

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