Fishing Quotes - Page 6

• There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.

  Washington Irving

  Serenity, Mind, Trout

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• We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.

  Perry Como

  Morning, Ocean, Kids

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• One of the cries from the people was, don't forget us. They have a long road ahead of them. Operation Blessing has found those little fishing towns. They will not be getting what other towns are getting from the government.

  Connie Sellecca

  Blessing, Government, Long

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• Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?

  Walter F. Mondale

  Travel, Sleep, Night

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• I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

  Izaak Walton

  Business, Gone

  Izaak Walton (1833). “The Complete Angler ; Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation; Being a Discourse on Rivers, Ponds, Fish and Fishing. With Lives and Notes”, p.33

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• I love talk and I love fishing. I'm having a ball.

  Martin Milner

  Balls

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• The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.183, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three years.

  Whitey Herzog

  Sports, Stars, Winning

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

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• All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.

  Herb Shriner

  Needs, Fisherman, Worms

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• Like they say, you can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months fishing alone.

  Mario Lopez

  One Day, Three, Months

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• Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better.

  David Walker

  Get Better, Screw Ups, Way

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• Good things come to those who hustle

  Chuck Noll

  Fitness, Patience, Workout

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• There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Death, Suicide

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fisherman and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

  Norman Maclean

  Sea, Dry, Assuming

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• Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.743, Library of America

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• If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong.

  John Gierach

  People, Away From You, Walks

  John Gierach (2001). “Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury”, p.405, Simon and Schuster

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• Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

  Herbert Hoover

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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

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• Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Rivers, Excuse, Angling

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• Never leave fish to find fish.

  Moses

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

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• One fish. Two fish. Red fish. Blue fish. Black fish. Blue fish. Old fish. New fish. This one has a little star. This one has a little car. Say! What a lot of fish there are.

  Dr. Seuss

  Stars, Blue, Two

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  Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Leadership, Spiritual

  "The Recognitions". Book by William Gaddis, "Anselm", p. 457, 1955.

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• Poets talk about "spots of time", but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone.

  Norman Maclean

  Gone, World, Moments

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.70, University of Chicago Press

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• Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

  Andre Gide

  Fall, Lakes, Sea

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• Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.

  Norman Maclean

  Summer, Memories, Thinking

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.161, University of Chicago Press

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• There's more B.S. in fly fishing than there is in a Kansas feedlot.

  Lefty Kreh

  Kansas, Fly Fishing, Great Fishing

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