Fishing Quotes - Page 4

• No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

  Lewis Carroll

  Sea, Rivers, Lakes

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• Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

  Don Marquis

  Liars, Lying, Lakes

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• Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.

  John Gierach

  Long, Trout, Idiot

  John Gierach (2001). “Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

  Ann Landers

  Home, Men, Sea

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• There's no such thing as too much power!

  Wolfgang Gullich

  Motivational, Strength, Power

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• I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have.

  Lou Henry Hoover

  Girl, Sorry, Father

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• I'd rather go fishing for three years.

  Whitey Herzog

  Years, Three, Three Years

  Whitey Herzog, Kevin Horrigan (1988). “White Rat: A Life in Baseball”, HarperCollins

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• The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen.

  Gordon MacQuarrie

  Failure, Men, Trout

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• Wherever the trout are, it's beautiful.

  Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

  Beautiful, Trout

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• Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.

  Jim Harrison

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

  Jim Harrison (2016). “Just Before Dark”, p.35, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.

  Izaak Walton

  Brother, Lakes, Sea

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

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• Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Men, Lakes, Sea

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• Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

  Paul Schullery

  Jobs, Lakes, Sea

  Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girl, Writing, Hunting

  Ernest Hemingway, Nick Lyons, Jack Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Fishing”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.

  Herbert Hoover

  Character, Years, People

  Herbert Hoover (1963). “Fishing for Fun - and to Wash Your Soul”

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• Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime

  Jimmy Cannon

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Humor, Rivers

  Attributed, in Hawker 'Instructions to Young Sportsmen' (1859) p. 197, though not found in Johnson's works. 'Notes and Queries' 11 December 1915

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• Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.

  E. W. Howe

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

  Izaak Walton

  Learning, Math, Trout

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) 'Epistle to the Reader'

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• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

  Maimonides

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Eternity, Walden Pond

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect

  Norman Maclean

  Perfect, Waiting, World

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.37, University of Chicago Press

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• One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Believe, Sea, Want

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• All men are equal before fish.

  Herbert Hoover

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

  1951 Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

  Anthony Doerr

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

  Penguin Group Interview, www.encyclopedia.com. 2006.

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