Fisherman Quotes · Page 5

“the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water”

— Virginia Woolf

I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.

— Ted Williams

“Between the fisherman and the fish, we are on the side of the fish for matters of justice!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.

— Girolamo Savonarola

When the snipe and the mussel struggle, the fisherman gets the benefit. Ancient Chinese saying

— Robert Greene

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

— Herbert Hoover

Fishes and tales And a fisherman's daughter Walks in the rain, She walks to the water To the sea.

— Daniel Lanois

I was a bass fisherman. I liked bass. That was my thing.

— Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end,…

— Ed Zern

Jesus called fishermen, not graduates of rabbinical schools. The main requirement was to be natural and sincere.

— Jim Cymbala

“Sea and fisherman are not good friends because fisherman takes the good treasures of the sea without giving something good in return!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I'm a bit of a dynamite fisherman when it comes to cooking as I don't have the patience, but I am a…

— Alexander Gilkes

Good-bye, good luck, struckthe sun and the moon, To the fisherman lost on the land. He stands alone at the door ofhis…

— Dylan Thomas

Maybe Fate isn't the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it, letting you run the line wild…

— Jodi Picoult

All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by…

— Wendell Berry

People ask me what I do, and I tell them, 'I'm a fisherman and a hunter.' They look at me like I'm…

— Jack Hemingway

After the last shovel of dirt was patted in place, I sat down and let my mind drift back through the years.…

— Wilson Rawls

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society…

— Karl Marx

Fisherman deceives the fish with bait; this action makes the fisherman dishonest! For a fisherman to be honest, he must not put…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

In the name of sense, man, if God made fish to be eaten, what difference does it make if I enjoy the…

— William Cowper Prime

From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea,…

— Anonymous

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are…

— Adam Johnson

Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and…

— Bob Dylan

I have heard of a minister, who had been a fisherman, being settled in Bridgewater for as long a time as he…

— Henry David Thoreau

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

Wise man is a lake full with fishes; clever man is a fisherman who often visits this lake!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.

— Czeslaw Milosz

The things fishermen know about trout aren't facts but articles of faith.

— John Gierach

Jesus, like any good fisherman, first catches the fish; then He cleans them.

— Mark Potter

When I get in the sun I get very tanned. You can't tell me from the native fishermen in Hawaii or Mexico.

— Desi Arnaz

Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger Across a crowded room.

— Oscar Hammerstein II

I'm thinking of taking a window cleaner's job to fill the spare hour in the evening.

— Stuart Pearce

“Scientists are sometimes wrong and fisherman are sometimes wrong.”

— Mark Kurlansky

Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.

— Theocritus

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

— Jim Harrison

Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.

— Jason Alexander

Bears are extremely human, even down to their footprints. But I am also a fly fisherman, so I have fished beside brown…

— Joseph Monninger

“Don't you have plans with Jeremy Stafford that night? I heard he was taking you out to eat at Owen's.' Jemma Leigh's…

— Marquita Valentine

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

— Louis Nizer