Fishing Quotes · Page 25

As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to…

— Paul Schullery

Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.

— Bill Barich

Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God…

— Edward Abbey

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

— Zane Grey

I’m a country boy, so I really appreciate the country. I love fishing, so I fish between takes on set. During lunch,…

— Travis Fimmel

The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather…

— Whitey Herzog

There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait.

— Walter Cronkite

After all, catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief,…

— Gladys Taber

“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime,…

— Aristophanes

There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for…

— Daniel Pauly

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

Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny,…

— Isaac Marion

We've talked about it, but I think one of the reasons 'Gone Fishing' is popular is that the fishing is on our…

— Paul Whitehouse

(Lake) Lanier is a good fishing lake. Everybody tells me I put my dock on the best fishing hole in the lake.…

— Luke Appling

. . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it,…

— Andrew Lang

Fly fishing is the most beautiful way of trying to catch a fish; not the most efficient, just as ballet is the…

— Howell Raines

Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma'…

— Ira Gershwin

Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die.

— Zicheng Hong

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things…

— William Kent Krueger

Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.

— Rudyard Kipling

The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.

— Tim Ferriss

Outside of my family and my work, I have two passions, both instilled in me by my father: golf and fishing.

— Matt Lauer

To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

— John D. Voelker

. . . . spending more time with my fly firmly attached to the branches of trees and almost none of it…

— Tom Sutcliffe

And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have…

— Lord Byron

The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

— Virginia Woolf

“He wanted me to go with him, and had cast his line, hoping to snag his most elusive catch - me.”

— Amber Lynn Natusch

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

— Jim Harrison

One fish. Two fish. Red fish. Blue fish. Black fish. Blue fish. Old fish. New fish. This one has a little star.…

— Dr. Seuss

Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.

— Clark Gable

Whether people know it or not, I'm a big nature guy. I like snowboarding, I like fishing, and those are my ways…

— Daymond John

I ended up buying a van to chuck all my fishing gear in because I couldn't keep using my car.

— Mark Noble

I'm a kid really, I'm 100mph in your face and fishing just slows you down and just it's nice, tranquil.

— Jimmy Bullard

“To hell with that. A man goin' fishing with two whores from Portland don't have to take that crap.”

— Ken Kesey

Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.

— Cotton Mather

I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.

— Scotty McCreery

We like visiting beaches and seeing the area. We went to St Mawes in Cornwall with my brother recently and spent the…

— Tony Hadley

Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

— Harold Russell

“There are a million-and-one ways to enjoy a day’s angling. Catching fish is but one of them.”

— Fennel Hudson

I hear there are plenty of fish in the sea. that's why I put on my waders, grabbed my tackle box and…

— Sarah Moores