A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
I'm only wishing to go a-fishing;For this the month of May was made. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I grew up hunting and fishing, as did my family. But then I served in the military. — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can? — Lee Wulff Copy Share Image
The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish… — Lee Wulff Copy Share Image
Baby's fishing for a dream, fishing near and far. His line a silver moonbeam is, his bait a silver star. — Alice Riley Copy Share Image
There comes a time in every man's life when he is either going to go fishing or do something worse. — Havilah Babcock Copy Share Image
Fishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and… — Bob Gibson Copy Share Image
She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
A thousand hills, but no birds in flight, Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks. A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man,… — Liu Zongyuan Copy Share Image
Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions. — John Gierach Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up in the ocean -- as a matter of fact -- near the ocean -- I grew up in… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get… — John Badham Copy Share Image
What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S. [National Socialism], but has nothing to do with the inner truth… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can't spend as much time there as I like, but I like… — Guy Ritchie Copy Share Image
Come warm weather, I'm going to take a kid fishing; I hope you do to. But nothing would make me happier than… — Gene Hill Copy Share Image
Magna Carta only came into being in 1217, when the wording had been changed and parts of the original were extended in… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Photography's a case of keeping all the pores of the skin open, as well as the eyes. A lot of photographers today… — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
“Bycatch and discards are a fact of life to a fisherman. There is no fishing method that catches only the quarry. ...The… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
“This is the story of a boy named Pete Coutinho, who had a spell put on him. Some people might have called… — Henry Kuttner Copy Share Image
Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Such a nice day - out all day up in the Carter Notch direction, trout-fishing, with the long drive there and the… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
“Using steel-pronged drag fishing nets, these foreign trawlers did not bother with nimble explorations of the reefs: they uprooted them, netting the… — Jay Bahadur Copy Share Image
The fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
We see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those which live… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments. — Arnold Gingrich Copy Share Image
I'm a fisherman. I've always loved fishing. I grew up fishing for trout. — Alex O'Loughlin Copy Share Image
I was fishing with director Frank Capra once and we talked about retirement. — Fred MacMurray Copy Share Image