Fishing Quotes · Page 7

In the sixth grade, I planned to start my own business making custom fishing lures.

— Charles Best

Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.

— Baruch Spinoza

“Networking is like fishing. Just give some beer and a boat and I’ll be in business.”

— Jarod Kintz

When you bait your hook with your heart, the fish always bite.

— John Burroughs

“Smile, tip your traditional hat, and enjoy your time by the water.”

— Fennel Hudson

I try to think of myself as a chic fishing grandpa aesthetically.

— SZA

NATO isn't going to be concerned about fishing.

— Paul Watson

The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

— Mary Astor

Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire.

— Tony Bishop

Yeah I know there's a lot of fish in the sea.. I just suck at fishing, I don't get many chances :/

— Unkown

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

— Henry David Thoreau

Buy a man a fish and he will eat for day. Teach a man to fish and he'll sit on a boat…

— Jjadedluver

Golf is like hunting and fishing. What counts is the companionship and fellowship of friends, not what you catch or shoot.

— George Archer

The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If…

— Roberta Smith

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

— Daniel Lanois

I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry…

— John Lasseter

'The best thing about hunting and fishing,' the Old Man said, 'is that you don't have to actually do it to enjoy…

— Robert Ruark

... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the…

— Margaret Mead

In the suburban Midwestern Reform Jewish world I was raised in, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, grown men built plastic scale models…

— Rick Perlstein

If you have a culture based on hunting and fishing and all the animals are disappearing and the fish are sick, then…

— Avi Lewis

After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and…

— Leo Tolstoy

On the face of it there is a pristine white sandy beach, but within an hour, around 100 of us can collect…

— Ben Fogle

I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and…

— Thomas McGuane

[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other…

— D. H. Lawrence

Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big…

— Norman Maclean

The little fishing boat anchors right off the shore of Gili Meno. There are no docks here on this island. You have…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count…

— Jerome K. Jerome

Some friends and I, we went right up there behind the studio and we got on a train, we could tell it…

— William T. Vollmann

There's nothing that builds up a toil-weary soul Like a day on a stream, Back on the banks of the old fishing…

— Edgar Guest

“I suspect, on some level, all of us who consider ourselves “outdoors-people” — whether we fish or hunt or birdwatch or gather…

— Joe Webb The Poet's Sword

I always say artists must broaden their research. I go to casinos, fly fishing, to show apartments in new residential buildings, watch…

— Ryan Gander

“Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting…

— Carl Safina

I enjoy writing. Would I rather be playing golf? No. Would I rather be fishing? No.

— Melvyn Bragg

Just another cold, misty morning inviting, "want to go again?"

— Mary Anne Radmacher

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

— Steven Wright

All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.

— Norman Maclean

I frankly don't make much of a living, but I make a hell of a life.

— Jack Gartside

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

— Virginia Woolf

What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.

— Patrick F. McManus

Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.

— Herbert Hoover