Fisherman Quotes

• The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Life, Leadership, Determination

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• As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.

  Ansel Adams

  Spiritual, Emotional, Lakes

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• Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts.

  Charles W. Waterman

  Jobs, Simple, Lakes

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• The moment where the fisherman catches the fish, happiness and agony, light and darkness, joy and death come face to face!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Light, Agony

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• Good things come to those who wait.

  Jess C Scott

  Inspirational, Funny, Patience

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Porcelain”, p.147, jessINK

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• A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

  Iggy Pop

  Drinking, Christ, Hung

  "Iggy Pop's Trail of Destruction" by Erik Hedegaard, www.rollingstone.com. December 11, 2003.

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• It does not matter whether you paint, sculpt, or make shoes, whether you are a gardener, a farmer, a fisherman, a carpenter-it does not matter. What matters is, are you putting your very soul into what you are creating? Then your creative products have something of the quality of divine.

  Rajneesh

  What Matters, Shoes, Creating

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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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• Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect

  Norman Maclean

  Fishing, Perfect, Waiting

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.37, University of Chicago Press

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• A positive attitude and an open mind are true characteristics of all good fishermen

  Kevin VanDam

  Attitude, Mind, Characteristics

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• There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life Lesson, Great Ones

  Ernest Hemingway (1963). “老人与海”

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• Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Marine, Men

  'Pericles, Prince Of Tyre' (1606-8) act 2, sc. 1, l. [29]

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• There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon

  Jack Nicklaus

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out.

  Thomas McGuane

  Taken, Marine, Lakes

  Thomas McGuane (1999). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, Knopf

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• Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.

  John D. Voelker

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Good things come to those who hustle

  Chuck Noll

  Fitness, Patience, Workout

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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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• He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

  Ovid

  Swimming, Lakes, Sea

  Ovid, John Henry Mozley (1979). “Ovid”, Loeb Classical Library

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

  Washington Irving

  Fishing, Serenity, Mind

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• In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

  Lennart Meri

  Past, Hunters, Film

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• 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

  Fishing, Trout, Charm

  John Buchan (1921). “Great Hours in Sport”, London : T. Nelson

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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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• Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

  Paul Schullery

  Jobs, Lakes, Sea

  Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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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