Angling Quotes · Page 2

Good things come to those who initiate.

— Susan RoAne

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

— John Gierach

“Smile, tip your traditional hat, and enjoy your time by the water.”

— Fennel Hudson

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

— Thomas McGuane

The best time to go fishing is when you can get away.

— John D. Voelker

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

— Anonymous

A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be…

— Zane Grey

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.

— Izaak Walton

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

— Izaak Walton

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

— Washington Irving

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

— Lord Byron

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing…

— Izaak Walton

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

— Washington Irving

Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon.

— Patrick F. McManus

Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a…

— Patrick F. McManus

All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love…

— John Steinbeck

My aunt used to say, "It's between me and my god; it's got nothing to do with you." It was a good…

— Mohsin Hamid

I would love to get an international version of Riding Shotgun going, because that's what I've been angling at ever since I…

— Zach Anner

“Angling is tightly woven in a fabric of moral, social, and philosophical threads which are not easily rent by the violent climate…

— A. J. McClane

“Finally, Gunner spoke, his voice so fluid and moving, it could have come from the river itself. "I once hear a poem…

— Clare Vanderpool

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened…

— Izaak Walton

After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and…

— Leo Tolstoy

“There’s always an opportunity to fish for something – even if it’s just for laughs or ideas.”

— Fennel Hudson

The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes…

— Juliana Berners

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

— Izaak Walton

All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.

— Norman Maclean

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

— Patrick F. McManus

'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With…

— William Shakespeare

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

— Stephen Leacock

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

— Rafael Sabatini

“Angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a…

— Samuel Johnson

There will be no end to angling controversies for there is no one best way for everyone to fish.

— Lee Wulff

“Catching fish is secondary to the immeasurable joys of the watery world.”

— Fennel Hudson

“He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Theodore Gordon

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls...

— Jim Harrison

I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.

— Roderick Haig-Brown

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

“The act of fishing – for fish, dreams or whatever magic is available – is enough.”

— Fennel Hudson

“It is the goings-on between bites that excites the traditional angler as much as when the float goes under.”

— Fennel Hudson