Fishing Quotes

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  When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Marriage, Wisdom

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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

  Trout, Fisherman, Charm

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

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• Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Men, Lakes, Sea

  Orlando Aloysius Battista (1981). “Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary”, Perigee

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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 two best times to fish is when it's raining and when it ain't.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Rain, Two, Anglers

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

  Patrick F. McManus

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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

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• The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1978). “Life and death in a coral sea”

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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, Gains

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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 fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hook, Fool, Sticks

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• I look at it this way... For centuries now, man has done everything he can to destroy, defile, and interfere with nature: clear-cutting forests, strip-mining mountains, poisoning the atmosphere, over-fishing the oceans, polluting the rivers and lakes, destroying wetlands and aquifers... so when nature strikes back, and smacks him on the head and kicks him in the nuts, I enjoy that. I have absolutely no sympathy for human beings whatsoever. None. And no matter what kind of problem humans are facing, whether it's natural or man-made, I always hope it gets worse.

  George Carlin

  Ocean, Cutting, Men

  "George Carlin: Life Is Worth Losing". TV Special, www.imdb.com. 2005.

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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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• If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

  Zane Grey

  Long Ago, Trout, Capture

  Zane Grey (2000). “Tales of Southern Rivers”, p.130, Derrydale Press

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• It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

  John Steinbeck

  Nature, Men, Literature

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

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• Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

  Norman Maclean

  Running, Rivers, Water

  "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

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• Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, People, Political

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• I've gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water.

  William G. Tapply

  Water, Gone, Hours

  William G. Tapply (1997). “A Fly-Fishing Life”

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• We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.

  Joseph Campbell

  Whales, Minnows, Standing

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.46, Anchor

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  No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

  Heraclitus

  Change, Journey, Men

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• There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

  Herbert Hoover

  Prayer, Two, Political

  Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the American Road”

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• No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

  John Ruskin

  Powerful, Lakes, Sea

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.336

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• Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.

  Clark Gable

  Dames, Hell, Ifs

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• I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't.

  John Gierach

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

  John Gierach (2010). “At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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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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