Fishing Quotes · Page 13

Fishing is not a benign activity; it is hunting in the water.

— Sharon Gannon

I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

— Norman Schwarzkopf

Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed

— John D. Voelker

I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

A man fishes for two reasons: hes either sport fishing or fishing to eat.

— Anonymous

Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

...there are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream.

— Ed Zern

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

— Patrick F. McManus

. . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole…

— Arthur Ransome

If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.

— Will Rogers

Fishing keeps you alive, gives you time away - to enjoy God, the creations that He made. Because God made you.

— Roy Jones Jr

Anglers may be divided into almost as many genera and species as the fish they catch, and engage in the sport from…

— Thaddeus Norris

I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Fish banks are areas we set aside without fishing, reserves where we allow marine life to come back.

— Enric Sala

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers…

— George Bernard Shaw

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

— Izaak Walton

In Portugal, my sculpture 'She Changes' refers to the town's fishing history, to the era of seafaring trade and discovery. The contemporary…

— Janet Echelman

I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about…

— Sylvia Earle

There are now more than 4,000 places in the sea around the world that have some kind of protection. The bad news:…

— Sylvia Earle

It's nice, when fishing, to catch a fish. But it doesn't really matter if you don't. What you always catch is a…

— Ruth Rudner

Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting…

— William Shakespeare

None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men,…

— Charlotte Mason

I've been a straight man for so many years that from force of habit I repeat everything. I went out fishing with…

— George Burns

We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to…

— Thomas McGuane

A whole big, giant world full of men. Men with blue eyes. Brown eyes. Green eyes. And indescribable shades in between. Tall…

— Ellen Hopkins

Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it…

— David Lynch

A fish, which you can't see, deep down in the water, is a kind of symbol of peace on earth, good will…

— Robert Ruark

The other day Aks and I went up to your ranch for a day's fishing. I cannot remember any day when we…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a…

— Rudyard Kipling

Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing…

— Richard Dawkins

Now I am . . . like anyone with a strong preference for the fly rod, totally indifferent to how large a…

— Vance Bourjaily

Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and…

— Daniel Pauly

Why are you obsessed with fighting? Stick to fishing from now on.

— Tim Rice

Once a year, I gather a group of friends to go fishing.

— Miroslav Klose

Fishing is an important part of Ohio's culture and economy.

— Jon Husted

The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.

— Thomas Shadwell

Wallowing in this bloody sty, I cast for fish that pleased my eye

— Robert Lowell

I've been a fan of bass fishing for as long as I can remember.

— Charles Best

Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.

— Malcolm Fraser