Angling Quotes · Page 2

“Traditional angling is a mindset. So,have you set your mind?”

— Fennel Hudson

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

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

— Anonymous

The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes…

— Juliana Berners

Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in…

— Lee Wulff

There are ways of angling the camera. I don't just use a tripod. The only time I did that was in '88…

— Nan Goldin

Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

— Herbert Hoover

The two best times to fish is when it's raining and when it ain't.

— Patrick F. McManus

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

Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did

— Izaak Walton

Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.

— John Gierach

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.

— Izaak Walton

The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted…

— Theodore Gordon

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

— Thomas McGuane

A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be…

— Zane Grey

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

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

— Izaak Walton

Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a…

— Patrick F. McManus

Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

— Izaak Walton

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing…

— Izaak Walton

The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees…

— Charles Kingsley

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so...

— Izaak Walton

“It is the goings-on between bites that excites the traditional angler as much as when the float goes under.”

— Fennel Hudson

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

— Horace Greeley

It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

— Izaak Walton