Fishing Quotes - Page 32

• Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

  Cleopatra

  Leadership, Kings, Women

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• Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Lakes, Sea

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• I don't know what's on the other side.

  Patrick Swayze

  Curiosity, Sides, Fisherman

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• How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!

  Aldo Leopold

  Hunting, Wind, Rivers

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.39, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A lot of people think there's a lot of luck in fishing, and there really isn't.

  Kevin VanDam

  Thinking, People, Luck

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• It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything - a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing , tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood. But for some reason most people wait passively for success to come to them ..., living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully.

  Earl Nightingale

  Success, Sports, Golf

  "How to Change Your Life in 30 Seconds".

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• There comes a time in every man's life when he is either going to go fishing or do something worse.

  Havilah Babcock

  Men, There Comes A Time, Every Man

  Havilah Babcock (1985). “My Health Is Better in November: Thirty-Five Stories of Hunting and Fishing in the South”, p.295, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Time, Moving, Forever

  Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”

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• Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill, however slightly, he is likely to try out not just one more, but a whole ensemble.

  Margaret Mead

  Sports, Swimming, Skills

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• People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.

  Neil Kinnock

  Real, Agony, People

  "Neil Kinnock: 'This election is about now and the future'". Interview with David Hare, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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• Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Hunting, Shopping

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.

  Jonathan Swift

  Food, Lakes, Sea

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• The matter of flies, lines and other equipment of the right sort is not absolutely necessary in the rising of fish but they are very important in that they make it easier to do the things which bring success and in some cases are essential to success.

  Ray Bergman

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

  Ray Bergman (1938). “Trout: Fly Plates in Full Color Painted by Edgar Burke; Photographs of Fly Tying by Charles S. Krug; Also Many Diagrams in Line by Ivin Sickles”

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• What pretty bright trout there are in this bold rock creek! It would full be called a river in England, and so it is!

  Thaddeus Norris

  Rivers, Lakes, Rocks

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• The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.

  Robert Burns

  Art, Rivers, Lakes

  Robert Burns (2010). “The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns”, p.577, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.

  David James Duncan

  Grateful, Book, Lakes

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• All my clear-eyed fish, Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish, Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze... My charming rod, my potent river spells.

  John Keats

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  John Keats, Jack Stillinger (1982). “Complete Poems”, p.91, Harvard University Press

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• Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

  "Atlantic Game Fishing". Book by S. Kip Farrington. Introduction to the book, 1937.

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• Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word.

  Zane Grey

  Beautiful, Rivers, White

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• Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace.

  Tony Bishop

  Beach, Moving, Sea

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• Millions of Americans own dogs, because they are good-natured, simple, and easily amused. I am referring here to the Americans. The dogs are not exactly Mensa members either, but they definitely make better pets than tropical fish.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Simple, Rivers

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• Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

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• If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

  Izaak Walton

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

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• The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sweet, Rivers, Lakes

  Leigh Hunt, David Jesson-Dibley (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.58, Psychology Press

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• The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play.

  Robert Burns

  Lakes, Jumping, Sea

  Robert Burns (1868). “Poems, Songs, and Letters: Being the Complete Works of Robert Burns”, p.98

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