Fishes Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly.

  John Gierach

  Thinking, Fishing, Long

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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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• 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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• It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.

  William Cowper Prime

  Fishing, Doe, Sake

  William Cowper Prime (1876). “I Go A-fishing”, p.143

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• You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.

  Grant Wood

  Wine, Beer, Fish Tanks

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• You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Islands, People, Forever

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• I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Hunting

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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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• All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing.

  Rex Hunt

  Kids, Sea, Fishing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

  Imelda Marcos

  Kings, Politics, Holding On

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.

  Neal Barnard

  Food, Giving, Fuel

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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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• I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

  Anthony Doerr

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

  Penguin Group Interview, www.encyclopedia.com. 2006.

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• Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living.

  Julius Boros

  Golf, Fishing, Play

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• Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girl, Writing, Hunting

  Ernest Hemingway, Nick Lyons, Jack Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Fishing”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• I am firmly convinced that the ideal combination leading to a happy life is to have the time to both fish and read.

  Brian Murphy

  Happy Life, Lakes, Sea

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• I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

  Nick Lowe

  Big Fish, Ponds, Headache

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• It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

  Stephen Leacock

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Stephen Leacock (2010). “My Remarkable Uncle”, p.93, New Canadian Library

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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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• 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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• We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. … Our brains and nervous systems did not suddenly spring into existence without long antecedents in natural history. That which we most prize as integral to our humanity - our extraordinary capacity to think on complex conceptual levels - can be traced back to the nerve network of primitive invertebrates, the ganglia of a mollusk, the spinal cord of a fish, the brain of an amphibian, and the cerebral cortex of a primate.

  Murray Bookchin

  Spring, Ocean, Journey

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• I do call upon a little Fish Mooney energy sometimes, believe it or not.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Believe, Energy, Littles

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• I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different.

  Lil Wayne

  Ocean, Swimming, Sky

  Song: Sky Is Tha Limit, Album: Da Drought 3

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