Catching Fish Quotes

• 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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• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.

  Louis C. K.

  Education, Math, Men

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• The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

  A. Best

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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

  Dave Barry

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.104, Ballantine Books

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• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

  Maimonides

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?

  Lee Wulff

  Kindness, Fishing, Giving

  Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult

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• Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.

  Lee Wulff

  Fishing, Games, Trout

  Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult

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• I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the experience of spending six hours in the arms of the ocean, never thinking of a single thing except chasing fish.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Ocean, Thinking, Records

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• ...over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Past

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• The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Rivers

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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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• The fishing is a great relief for me. When I'm out there's no cell phone ringing. I'm out there fishing with bears. I'm in the middle of God's country catching tons of fish. I just absolutely love it.

  Rick Barry

  Country, Phones, Cells

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• If you give a man a fish, he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish, you do him a good turn.

  Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

  Men, Teach A Man To Fish, Giving

  "Mrs Dymond". Book by Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, 1885.

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• I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one fish was caught, he was writhing, then he was thrown against the side of the boat. You couldn't disguise what it was. This was what we did to animals to eat them. The animal went from a living, vibrant creature fighting for life to a violent death. I recognized it, as did my brothers and sisters.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Brother, Memories, Fighting

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• Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching fish is actually the point.

  John Gierach

  Hands, Fishing, Poetic

  John Gierach (2010). “Dances With Trout”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Catching fish is not a mental game between fish and angler. A 'smart' trout is only smarter than other trout, not smarter than a fisherman. An angler must take the puzzle of the day's conditions, and matching those conditions and his knowledge of the fish come up with a good catch. He competes with a concept, not with a fish's brain.

  Lee Wulff

  Smart, Sea, Fishing

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• Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

  Robert Hughes

  Sports, Football, Sea

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.300, Vintage

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