Fishing Quotes - Page 29

• Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.

  Alexander Pope

  Yellow, Lakes, Race

  Alexander Pope (2008). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.128, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.

  Cotton Mather

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing there! What is my head cut off? A sounding sea; What is my tail cut off? A rushing river; And in their mingling depths I fearless play, Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Cutting, Lakes, Sea

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• Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

  Robert Lowell

  Lakes, Sea, Cities

  "For the Union Dead" l. 29 (1964)

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• O scaly, slippery, wet, swift, staring wights, What is 't ye do? what life lead? eh, dull goggles? How do ye vary your vile days and nights? How pass your Sundays? Are ye still but joggles In ceaseless wash? Still nought but gapes and bites, And drinks, and stares, diversified with boggles.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sunday, Night, Lakes

  Leigh Hunt (1857). “The poetical works of Leigh Hunt, revised by himself and ed. with an intr. by S.A. Lee”, p.112

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• There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.

  Zane Grey

  Philosophy, Lakes, Sea

  Zane Grey (2014). “Gulf Stream Fishing”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Rivers, Lakes

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 8

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• It's so silly isn't it? how we grown men take up trout angling not simply to pursue trout but to find some place, some special place, where we feel at ease. a place to belong. Forces, not forms, persist: energy is spent and endures; time does not tick, it flows. God loves a man that smells of trout water and mountain meadows. Which way's heaven, you suppose? Follow the trail and keep close to the stream.

  Carey Mulligan

  Silly, Men, Sea

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• I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.

  Eugene Field

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  Eugene Field, “Our Biggest Fish”

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• Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off.

  Ed Zern

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

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• Who hears the fishes when they cry?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.44

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• How can you need so many rods and reels to catch a fish? , she asked, her lips pulled into that weaned on a gherkin look, as she watched me prepare for a fishing trip. Probably for much the same reason that you seem to need 30 pairs of shoes for one pair of feet, I nearly said, but decided to live for another day.

  Tony Bishop

  Lakes, Sea, Shoes

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• Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture two animals at once for our amusement.

  Thomas Young

  Animal, Lakes, Sea

  Thomas Young (1798). “An Essay on Humanity to Animals”, p.90

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• In the name of sense, man, if God made fish to be eaten, what difference does it make if I enjoy the killing of them before I eat them? You would have none but a fisherman by trade do it, and then you would have him utter a sigh, a prayer, and a pious ejaculation at each cod or haddock that he killed.

  William Cowper Prime

  Prayer, Men, Differences

  William Cowper Prime (1876). “I Go A-fishing”, p.266

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• Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

  Harold Russell

  Thoughtful, Lakes, Sea

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• My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

  George Orwell

  Memories, Lakes, Sea

  George Orwell (1969). “Coming Up for Air”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.

  Michael Faraday

  Weed, Lakes, Sea

  Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.3, Cambridge University Press

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• And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night till old age - to be taken when required, like fish from a private pond.

  Ihara Saikaku

  Taken, Night, Lakes

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• I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.

  William Gilbert

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

  Thomas McGuane

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• There is an immense trout in Loch Awe in Scotland, which is so voracious, and swallows his own species with such avidity, that he has obtained the name 'Salmo Ferox'. I pull about this unnatural monster till he is tired, land him, and administer the coup de grace. Is this cruel? Cruelty should be made of sterner stuff.

  Arnold Gingrich

  Tired, Rivers, Lakes

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• For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton whose book published in 1653 spoke not of anglers and , but anglers OR very honest men .

  Arthur Ransome

  Honesty, Book, Men

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• Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

  Arthur Ransome

  Lakes, Talking, Sea

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