Fishing Quotes - Page 30

• It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you wanted. Perhaps it's standing thigh deep in a river with the water passing at the exact but varying speed of life. You easily recognize this mortality and it dissipates into the landscape.

  Jim Harrison

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

  Jim Harrison (2007). “True North”, p.157, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I don't mind my hand shaking so much; it improves my S cast.

  Ed Zern

  Rivers, Lakes, Hands

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• It's not the fish you catch, it's the peace of mind you take home at the end of the day.

  Neil Gaiman

  Home, Mind, The End Of The Day

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.168, Hachette UK

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• The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Men, Lakes

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.85, BookBaby

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• I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

  Yanni

  Funny, Want, Problem

  Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books

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• None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men, let us look out for the best society, that which yields a bracing and wholesome influence. We all know the person for whose company we are the better, though the talk is only about fishing or embroidery.

  Charlotte Mason

  Book, Men, Yield

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.1039, Simon and Schuster

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• Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Men, Lakes, Sea

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• A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives.

  Gwen Cooper

  Men, Wife, Fishes

  Gwen Cooper, Evelyn Haas (1989). “Wade a little deeper, dear: a woman's guide to fly fishing”, Lyons Press

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• Golf is like hunting and fishing. What counts is the companionship and fellowship of friends, not what you catch or shoot.

  George Archer

  Golf, Hunting, Fellowship

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• From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50 percent in the proportion of children nine to twelve who spent time in such outside activities as hiking, walking, fishing, beach play, and gardening, according to a study by Sandra Hofferth at the University of Maryland.

  Richard Louv

  Beach, Children, Play

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.34, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• After all, catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves fear and anxiety.

  Gladys Taber

  Grief, Worry, Anxiety

  "The book of Stillmeadow".

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• The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.

  Gladys Taber

  Hate, Home, Want

  Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”

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• Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

  Izaak Walton

  Wise, Men, Lakes

  "The Compleat Angler".

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• One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who also happened to write witty romance novels. Women enjoy the love stories in Austen the same way men read Hemingway for the hunting and fishing: it provides guiltless pleasure.

  Alessandra Stanley

  Witty, Writing, Men

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• You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish

  Darrell Royal

  Fall, Thinking, Lakes

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• Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time.

  Zane Grey

  Mind, Bad Times, Conditions

  "Tales of Southern Rivers".

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• Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.

  Bill Drayton

  Teacher, Giving, Entrepreneur

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• Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like, ninety-two million kids in childbirth. All of her brothers died in the war. She survived the Depression by stealing radish bulbs from her neighbors' garden, and fishing the elms for pigeons. Dad likes to remind us of this in a grave voice, as if it explained her jaundiced pitilessness: "Boys. Your grandmother ate pigeons."

  Karen Russell

  Brother, Dad, War

  "Haunting Olivia" by Karen Russell, www.newyorker.com. June 13, 2005.

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• My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

  Norman Maclean

  Art, Father, Grace

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

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  Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values.

  Dalai Lama

  Moving On, Letting Go, Spiritual

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• The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.

  Tim Ferriss

  Running, Home, People

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• Cool! Now I can steal some rich old coot's Ferrari and go fishing for marlin with the same piece of jewelry.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Ferrari, Pieces, Jewelry

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• A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Sea

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. [29]

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• He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own life instead of living it. How innocuous it all was, and empty, empty, empty! This chasing after yourself, craftily observing your own tracks--in a circle, of course. This sham diving into the stream of life while all the time you sat angling after yourself, fishing yourself up in one curious disguise or another! If he could only be overwhelmed by something--life, love, passion--so that he could no longer shape it into poems, but had to let it shape him!

  Jens Peter Jacobsen

  Dream, Love Life, Passion

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