Funny Fishing Quotes - Page 2

• Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sex, Fun, Writing

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• Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.

  Ed Zern

  Fishing, Honest, Fisherman

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• If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

  Zane Grey

  Long Ago, Fishing, Trout

  Zane Grey (2000). “Tales of Southern Rivers”, p.130, Derrydale Press

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

  John Gierach

  Fishing, Long, Trout

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

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

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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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• Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

  Ted Hughes

  Opportunity, Self, Fishing

  "Poet, pike and a pitiful grouse". Interview with Thomas Pero, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 1999.

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• Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Sex, Fun

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• Good things come to those who wait.

  Jess C Scott

  Inspirational, Funny, Patience

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Porcelain”, p.147, jessINK

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• Good things come to those who initiate.

  Susan RoAne

  Patience, Fitness, Workout

  Susan RoAne (2009). “Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sex, Fun, Golf

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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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• We do not know what is on the other side of the storm.

  Brian Francis

  Art Of War, Fishing, Storm

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• There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

  Herbert Hoover

  Prayer, Fishing, Two

  Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the American Road”

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

  Patrick Swayze

  Fishing, Curiosity, Sides

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• There is no such thing as too much snow.

  Doug Coombs

  Fishing, Snow, Too Much Power

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

  Don Marquis

  Liars, Lying, Lakes

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• Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.

  Arnold Gingrich

  Fun, Fishing, Standing

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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, Fishing

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