Angling Quotes · Page 2

Good things come to those who initiate.

— Susan RoAne

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

— John Gierach

“Angling is a sport, so sporting ethics should apply.”

— Fennel Hudson

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

— Izaak Walton

Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.

— Roderick Haig-Brown

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

— Horace Greeley

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

— Lord Byron

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

— Izaak Walton

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

— Izaak Walton

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

— Izaak Walton

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

— Herbert Hoover

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

— Fennel Hudson

Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.

— Izaak Walton

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

— Izaak Walton

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

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

— Thomas McGuane

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

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

We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God…

— Izaak Walton

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

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

Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has…

— John Gierach

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

— Ann Landers

“The act of fishing – for fish, dreams or whatever magic is available – is enough.”

— Fennel Hudson

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

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

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

— Fennel Hudson

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

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

— Izaak Walton

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

— Herbert Hoover

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls...

— Jim Harrison

I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.

— Roderick Haig-Brown

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

— Rafael Sabatini

'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With…

— William Shakespeare

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

— Stephen Leacock

“Angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a…

— Samuel Johnson

“He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Theodore Gordon

There will be no end to angling controversies for there is no one best way for everyone to fish.

— Lee Wulff

“Catching fish is secondary to the immeasurable joys of the watery world.”

— Fennel Hudson