Fishing Quotes - Page 2

• 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 go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.

  Joseph Monninger

  Trout, Loses, Fly Fishing

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• Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

  Garrison Keillor

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Good Life

  "Leaving Home". Book by Garrison Keillor, 1987.

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• The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Ignorance, Animal

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.557, Library of America

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• In a bowl to sea went wise men three,
  On a brilliant night of June:
  They carried a net, and their hearts were set
  On fishing up the moon.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Summer, Wise, Heart

  Thomas Love Peacock (1931). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931”

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• Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sex, Fun, Writing

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• I think it's time for me to get out, because at the moment I'm only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they're the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I'm thinking about it.

  Rex Hunt

  Eye, Thinking, Wake Up

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.

  DeForest Kelley

  Hunting, Tadpoles, Youngsters

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• I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington.

  Douglass North

  Photography, Hunting, Two

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• Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

  Robert Redford

  Sports, Baseball, Golf

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• Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

  Izaak Walton

  Hate, Blessing, And Love

  Izaak Walton (1653). “The Compleat Angler: Or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing Not Unworthy the Perusal of Most Anglers”, p.246

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• The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.

  Dave Barry

  Trust, Food, Lakes

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• The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy.

  Bobby Jindal

  Louisiana, Shells, Economy

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• There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Effort, Trout, Dry

  Miguel de Cervantes (2016). “Don Quijote de La Mancha / Don Quixote of La Mancha: edición bilingüe / bilingual edition - español / english”, p.2974, BOLCHIRO

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• To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

  John D. Voelker

  Regret, Lakes, Sea

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• She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Sarcastic, Good Friend, Water

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• Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.

  Ric Keller

  Swimming, Hunting, Years

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• If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly.

  Jack Ohman

  Reading, Lakes, Glasses

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• No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

  Izaak Walton

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.

  Joseph Barbera

  Hate, Car, Want

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

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• But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.

  Joseph C. Lincoln

  Marine, Hands, Years

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• There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.

  Tom Felton

  Couple, Book, Reading

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• The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

  John D. Voelker

  Children, Rivers, Lakes

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• People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen are called crackpot fishermen. This is confusing.

  Ed Zern

  Sports, Lakes, Sea

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• This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Funny, Humor, Islands

  Speech at Blackpool 24 May 1945, in Daily Herald 25 May 1945

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