Fishing Quotations
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| 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. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if he kept his mouth shut. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| "Carpe Diem" does not mean "fish of the day." | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| 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. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| Bass fishermen watch Monday night football, drink beer, drive pickup trucks and prefer noisy women with big breasts. Trout fishermen watch MacNeil-Lehrer, drink white wine, drive foreign cars with passenger-side air bags and hardly think about women at all. This last characteristic may have something to do with the fact that trout fishermen spend most of the time immersed up to the thighs in ice-cold water. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| Fishing is the sport of drowning worms. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| 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. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| There are two types of fisherman - those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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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 | |||
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| ...trout that doesn't think two jumps and several runs ahead of the average fisherman is mighty apt to get fried. | |||
| - Beatrice Cook | |||
| All fishermen are liars; it's an occupational disease with them like housemaid's knee or editor's ulcers. | |||
| - Beatrice Cook | |||
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| ...of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy. | |||
| - William Sherwood Fox | |||
| Even eminent chartered accountants are known, in their capacity as fishermen, blissfully to ignore differences between seven and ten inches, half a pound and two pounds, three fish and a dozen fish. | |||
| - William Sherwood Fox | |||
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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 | |||
| There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home. | |||
| - Roderick Haig-Brown | |||
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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 | |||
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| Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish. | |||
| - Herbert Hoover | |||
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| There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. | |||
| - Washington Irving | |||
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| If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. | |||
| - Doug Larson | |||
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| 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 | |||
| There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm. | |||
| - Patrick F. McManus | |||
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| I am not against golf, since I cannot but suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering trout... | |||
| - Paul O'Neil | |||
| 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 | |||
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| It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. | |||
| - John Steinbeck | |||
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| Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. | |||
| - Henry David Thoreau | |||
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| There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. | |||
| - Steven Wright | |||