Fishing Quotes - Page 27

• English literature is a flying fish.

  E. M. Forster

  Flying, Literature, England

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• [Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Flower, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.374, Cambridge University Press

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• I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course.--Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Morning, Swimming

  D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Plumed Serpent”, p.372, Wordsworth Editions

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• President Bush stopped off at a bass pro fishing store to pick up a fishing reel, some line and some rubber worms. He's going to disappear and go fishing. So he must think he's back in the National Guard.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, President, Lines

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• In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Nature, History

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.66, Harvard University Press

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• It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fishes of this century, their happiness a regular fruit of the summer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Summer, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.460, Simon and Schuster

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• The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Ice, Scare

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.195, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I will catch Christ with a greased worm,
  And when the Prince of Darkness stalks
  My bloodstream to its Stygian term . . .
  On water the Man-Fisher walks.

  Robert Lowell

  Men, Water, Darkness

  Robert Lowell (1966). “The Achievement of Robert Lowell: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems with a Critical Introduction”

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• Once fishing was a rabbit's foot--
  O wind blow cold, O wind blow hot

  Robert Lowell

  Blow, Wind, Feet

  Robert Lowell (1964). “Poems, 1938-1949”

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• Wallowing in this bloody sty,
  I cast for fish that pleased my eye

  Robert Lowell

  Eye, Wallowing, Casts

  Robert Lowell (1964). “Poems, 1938-1949”

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• The idea of the industrial fishing affects everyone. Those factory ships play this game of hit and run with the international fishing limits, and somebody said it's like hunting squirrels with a bulldozer. They pull everything in and they are only looking for certain types of fish and everything else dies and they just throw it back. It's like chumming.

  Robin Williams

  Running, Hunting, Squirrels

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• What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S. [National Socialism], but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement [namely the encounter between global technology and modern humanity] is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities.

  Martin Heidegger

  Philosophy, Greatness, Sea

  "Introduction to Metaphysics". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1953.

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• Where I stand at is on the Second Amendment where the right to bear arms is not just for hunting and fishing and things like that. But it's the right of the American people to have a means of defense against a tyrannical government. So, sometimes you got to have that back-up plan.

  Big Boi

  Mean, Hunting, Government

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• It is good even to be a fisherman in summer and in winter.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Winter, Fisherman

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.34, Delphi Classics

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• Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Order, Lobster

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sports, Bait, Digging

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• (Lake) Lanier is a good fishing lake. Everybody tells me I put my dock on the best fishing hole in the lake. In fact, I've sat on the dock and caught a 12 pound bass. I saw another guy catch about a 40 pound and 26 pound striper one morning In front of my dock, and I used to catch a lot of 8 to 9 pound largemouth around it.

  Luke Appling

  Morning, Lakes, Guy

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• Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

  Arthur Ransome

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• Out of the east on an Irish stallion came bounty hunter Dan His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun and got the drop He said, "Pete, you think you've changed, but you have not.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Heart, Men, Thinking

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• All the charm of the angler's life would be lost but for these hours of thought and memory. All along the brook, all day on lake or river, while he takes his sport, he thinks. All the long evenings in camp, or cottage, or inn, he tells stories of his own life, hears stories of his friend's lives, and if alone calls up the magic of memory.

  William Cowper Prime

  Sports, Memories, Thinking

  William Cowper Prime (1873). “I Go A-fishing”, p.187

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• It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method. The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. No sportsman however, will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Sea, Rivers, Lakes

  Charles Dudley Warner (1878). “In the Wilderness”, p.26, Syracuse University Press

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• The fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees and the shadows. All his approaches are gentle and indirect. He times himself to the meandering, soliloquizing stream; he addresses himself to it as a lover to his mistress; he woos it and stays with it till he knows its hidden secrets. Where it deepens his purpose deepens; where it is shallow he is indifferent. He knows how to interpret its every glance and dimple; its beauty haunts him for days.

  John Burroughs

  Sea, Rivers, Lakes

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• Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away

  Farley Mowat

  Son, Lakes, Sea

  Farley Mowat (1990). “The New Founde Land”, Seal Books

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• If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Men, Lakes, Sea

  Mark Kurlansky (1998). “Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World”, p.35, Penguin

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• Aquatic animals suffer from the disadvantage that they cannot scream when in pain, so we find it hard to gauge the degree of their agony. If fish could scream, angling purely for sport would be outlawed without delay.

  Desmond Morris

  Sports, Pain, Animal

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