The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is… — Robert Altman Copy Share Image
Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
I've not really been angling to be a comedian. I knew comics and I loved them and I loved being funny, but… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
