Fishing Quotes - Page 14

• ... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing.

  Margaret Mead

  Mirrors, Imagination, Cynical

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the same reason, golf, fishing, and shooting, and I do because first, they take you into the fields. There is mild exercise, the kind that an older individual probably should have. And on top of it, it induces you to take at any one time 2 or 3 hours, if you can, where you are thinking of the bird or that ball or the wily trout. Now, to my mind it is a very healthful, beneficial kind of thing, and I do it whenever I get a chance, as you well know.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Exercise, Golf

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• [T]is not all fishing to fish.

  Izaak Walton

  Fishes

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• Somebody might say that they always wanted to be a fly-fishing guide in Montana and maybe they'll never get to do that but just by the virtue of having said it out loud, I think there's some power in that.

  John Lee Hancock

  Thinking, Montana, Might

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• I'm just a simple guy. I love being at my house with my family. I love playing dominos and card games and hunting and fishing. That's just what I like to do.

  Jase Robertson

  Simple, Love Is, Hunting

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• And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

  Izaak Walton

  Winter, Fly Fishing

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) 'Epistle to the Reader'

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• There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.

  Faith Baldwin

  Stupidity, Bait, Matter

  Faith Baldwin (1934). “Honor bound”

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• fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

  Virginia Woolf

  Honesty, Morality, Teach

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3200, Delphi Classics

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• The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

  Virginia Woolf

  Race, Differences, Profound

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3201, Delphi Classics

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• I spent a long time away from my parents when I was younger. I would go hunting and fishing with my uncle, and we would go for weeks at a time. I also spent a lot of time in Texas with my grandparents.

  RJ Mitte

  Uncles, Hunting, Texas

  "Q&A – RJ Mitte (Walter White, Jr.)". www.amc.com.

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• Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.

  Mariano Rivera

  Wise, Jobs, Smart

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• My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we were buying a pup tent to go on our first camping trip.

  David Suzuki

  Memories, Father, Childhood

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• I like night fishing, even though there is a molecule of terror in it. Maybe it is that tiny bit of terror that I relish, that going mano a mano with another predator in the dark. I know it is not entirely civilized, but there is nothing to compare with the sizzle of fear except, perhaps, the rush of being feared. Either condition confirms you are alive.

  Paul G. Quinnett

  Dark, Night, Sea

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• A fish, which you can't see, deep down in the water, is a kind of symbol of peace on earth, good will to yourself. Fishing gives a man ... some time to collect his thoughts and reaarange them kind of neatly, in an orderly fashion. Once the bait is on the hook and the boat is anchored, there's nothing to interfere with thinking except an occasional bite

  Robert Ruark

  Fashion, Men, Thinking

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• Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books but as men. They are our companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they are with us and what a pleasant company they are.

  Arthur Ransome

  Summer, Book, Winter

  Arthur Ransome (2013). “Fishing”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed nerve endings and you can't hear your fellow anglers' hysterical laughter.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Laughter, Sea, Rivers

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• Show me a man who fishes in winter, and I'll show you a fanatic. Actually, I'll get the better of the deal, because for sheer spectacle a fanatic doesn't hold a candle to a man who fishes in winter

  Patrick F. McManus

  Winter, Men, Lakes

  Patrick F. McManus (1982). “They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?”, p.26, Macmillan

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• The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the skill and mastery the fish demands from the fisherman

  Charles Ritz

  Lakes, Sea, Skills

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• The truth is, fish have very little sex life. If you have ever tried to make love under water, you will know why.

  Ed Zern

  Sex, Lakes, Sea

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• The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells

  Ed Zern

  Wall, Lakes, Sea

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• Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Half, Industry, New Zealand

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

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• I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.

  Ted Williams

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• The other day Aks and I went up to your ranch for a day's fishing. I cannot remember any day when we have had more fun on a stream. We had along with us three newspaper men and a few secret service people, many of whom had never seen a trout stream, so we did the thing up right by borrowing frying pans, bacon and corn meal from the wife of your rancher - and we cooked an outdoor meal for the crowd. It was really quite a day.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Fun, Men

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• I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.

  Mickey Melchiondo

  School, Sea, Captains

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• I enjoy hunting, but if I had my choice to go deer hunting or bass fishing, I'd take bass fishing any day of the week. I enjoy both of them, but yeah, I'm a very outdoorsy guy.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Hunting, Choices, Guy

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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