It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish. — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
“Catching fish is secondary to the immeasurable joys of the watery world.” — Fennel Hudson Copy Share Image
The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted… — Theodore Gordon Copy Share Image
“It is the goings-on between bites that excites the traditional angler as much as when the float goes under.” — Fennel Hudson Copy Share Image
The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait. — William Shakespeare 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
“The act of fishing – for fish, dreams or whatever magic is available – is enough.” — Fennel Hudson Copy Share Image
“Angling is tightly woven in a fabric of moral, social, and philosophical threads which are not easily rent by the violent climate… — A. J. McClane Copy Share Image
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
I've not really been angling to be a comedian. I knew comics and I loved them and I loved being funny, but… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is… — Robert Altman Copy Share Image
Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon. — Patrick F. McManus Copy Share Image
Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I would love to get an international version of Riding Shotgun going, because that's what I've been angling at ever since I… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There will be no end to angling controversies for there is no one best way for everyone to fish. — Lee Wulff Copy Share Image
“He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Aquatic animals suffer from the disadvantage that they cannot scream when in pain, so we find it hard to gauge the degree… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other… — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
My aunt used to say, "It's between me and my god; it's got nothing to do with you." It was a good… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
It is quite easy to debase the sport, change its values, dilute its ethics and destroy its traditional associations with quietness, relaxation… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
