Great Fishing Quotes

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

  Arnold Gingrich

  Fun, Fishing, Standing

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

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Sex, Fun

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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

  Fishing, Perfect, Waiting

  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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• Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

  Norman Maclean

  Running, Time, Rain

  "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

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• Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

  Thomas McGuane

  Fishing, Trout, Consuming

  Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.13, Vintage

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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, Fishing

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

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Fishing, Eternity

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

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• No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

  John Ruskin

  Powerful, Lakes, Sea

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.336

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Sex, Fun, Writing

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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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• A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

  Horace Greeley

  Funny, Humorous, Fire

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• The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted air.

  Theodore Gordon

  Real, Air, Fishing

  Theodore Gordon, Paul Schullery (2007). “Theodore Gordon on Trout: Talks and Tales from a Great American Angler”, p.52, Stackpole Books

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

  Lefty Kreh

  Fishing, Kansas, Fly Fishing

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• O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

  Izaak Walton

  Art, Fishing, Doubt

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.28

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• The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.

  Arnold Gingrich

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Aging is for people who don't know any better.

  Tony Horton

  Fishing, People, Aging

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• He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Stupid, Pride, Fishing

  "Anna Karenina".

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• Never leave fish to find fish.

  Moses

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• I'd rather go fishing for three years.

  Whitey Herzog

  Years, Fishing, Three

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

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• What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast?

  Nash Buckingham

  Fishing, Trout, Emotion

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• What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Fishing, Tourists, Insects

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• The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

  John Buchan

  Fishing, Trout, Fisherman

  John Buchan (1921). “Great Hours in Sport”, London : T. Nelson

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

  John Gierach

  Fishing, People, Away From You

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

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• God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo.

  Dave Mustaine

  Fishing, People, Bars

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• I frankly don't make much of a living, but I make a hell of a life.

  Jack Gartside

  Fishing, Hell, Trout Fishing

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