Fisherman Quotes - Page 2

• All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.

  Herb Shriner

  Fishing, Needs, Worms

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• I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Inspiration, Cottages, Palaces

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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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• 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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• Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Lakes, Sea

  Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945”

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• Poets talk about "spots of time", but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone.

  Norman Maclean

  Fishing, Gone, World

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.70, University of Chicago Press

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• We do not know what is on the other side of the storm.

  Brian Francis

  Art Of War, Fishing, Storm

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• The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them.

  John Gierach

  Mistake, Lakes, Sea

  "Fly-fishing the High Country". Book by John Gierach, 1984.

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• The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.

  Girolamo Savonarola

  World, Weapons, Glory

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• There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Home, Optimistic, Fishing

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• Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.

  Herbert Hoover

  Character, Years, Fishing

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

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• Most fishermen use the double haul to throw their casting mistakes further.

  Lefty Kreh

  Mistake, Lakes, Sea

  Lefty Kreh (1991). “Longer Fly Casting”, Lyons Press

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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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• 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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  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 fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.

  Martial

  Three, Steps, Overboard

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• Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Men, Lakes, Sea

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• 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

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.183, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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• Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The old man and the sea”, p.17, Hueber Verlag

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• Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Mistake, Lying, People

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.55, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town.

  Charles Kingsley

  Children, Sailing, Towns

  'The Three Fishers'

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• The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Fishing, Hours

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• There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Patrick F. McManus (1984). “Never Sniff A Gift Fish”, p.157, Macmillan

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• There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.

  Peter DeFazio

  California Coast, Oregon, White

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