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- 17/02/2012 at 12:22 pm #7150
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InactiveQuotations about Fishing
There are two types of fisherman – those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish. ~Author Unknown
A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work. ~Author Unknown
May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it. ~Irish Blessing
I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent. ~Nick Lyons, Bright Rivers, 1977
All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish. ~Harold F. Blaisdell, The Philosophical Fisherman, 1969
There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. ~Washington Irving
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
The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad. ~A.K. Best
The gods do not deduct from man’s allotted span the hours spent in fishing. ~Babylonian Proverb
It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. ~John Steinbeck
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. ~Author Unknown
Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. ~Author Unknown
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau
All fishermen are liars; it’s an occupational disease with them like housemaid’s knee or editor’s ulcers. ~Beatrice Cook, Till Fish Do Us Part, 1949
An angler is a man who spends rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won’t let him do it at home. ~Author Unknown
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles. ~Doug Larson
We ask a simple question
And that is all we wish:
Are fishermen all liars?
Or do only liars fish?
~William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. ~Dave Barry
There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O’Neil, 1965
The best way to a fisherman’s heart is through his fly. ~Author Unknown
I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don’t know what’s on the other end. Your imagination is under there. ~Robert Altman
Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend. ~Zenna Schaffer
There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. ~Steven Wright
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 is a… discipline in the equality of men – for all men are equal before fish. ~Herbert Hoover
Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. ~Paul Schullery
…of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy. ~William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954
Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he’ll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years. ~Charles Haas
I am not against golf, since I cannot but suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering trout… ~Paul O’Neil
Three-fourths of the Earth’s surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn. ~Chuck Clark
There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm. ~Patrick F. McManus, Never Sniff a Gift Fish, 1979
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. ~Herbert Hoover
Good things come to those who bait. ~Author Unknown
Gone fishin’, be back at dark-thirty! ~Author Unknown
Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he’ll starve to death while praying for a fish. ~Author Unknown
Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught. ~Author Unknown
My biggest worry is that my wife (when I’m dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it. ~Koos Brandt
Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher’s salary. ~Patrick F. McManus
19/02/2012 at 7:53 am #20429St_Paul
ParticipantDo not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish. – Mark Twain
19/02/2012 at 8:40 am #20430Miliwolf
ParticipantThere are same very good ones there, but only halfway through the list.
21/02/2012 at 5:11 am #20442smokin’ joe
Participant” Early to bed, early to rise,
more time for fishing’
and the telling of lies” -unsure - AuthorPosts
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