Fishing Quotes · Page 22

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

— Henry David Thoreau

Yes, there are plenty of fish in the sea. But the problem is, I stopped fishing after I found you.

— Anonymous

I make appearances, but I really want to spend more time fishing. That is what I really enjoy doing with my spare…

— Larry Holmes

'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

My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we…

— David Suzuki

And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte.

— Juliana Berners

Sustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.'

— Paul Watson

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

— Andrew Lang

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

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

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

— Daniel Pauly

There is an urgent need for regeneration of fisheries and fostering a sustainable fisheries programme. What I mean is, designing new fishing…

— M. S. Swaminathan

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

— Aristophanes

I saw a fleet of fishing boats...I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on…

— Charles Lindbergh

The only reason I ever played in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

— Sam Snead

“I'm homeless, and I'm an alcoholic. But I have a dream.' 'What's that?' 'I wanna go fishing.”

— Brandon Stanton

The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells

— Ed Zern

The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with…

— Vivienne Westwood

I'm delighted to have been accepted into the U.S.A. with my fishing program after its success in Australia and throughout the U.K.,…

— Rex Hunt

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

— Rafael Sabatini

Yoochun makes great songs..so I want to go fishing w/ him. That way I can be closer to him as well.

— Junsu

We are serious about our fishing, and that's why, when we take guys fishing, and they aren't being serious about it, we…

— Maddie Marlow

We've got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays and we hate him!

— Hank Williams, Jr

There are times when salmon play no part in the proceedings of a day that is obstensibly spent in their pursuit.

— Dale Rex Coman

I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got…

— Eugene Field

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

— Izaak Walton

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers…

— George Bernard Shaw

Fish banks are areas we set aside without fishing, reserves where we allow marine life to come back.

— Enric Sala

I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Anglers may be divided into almost as many genera and species as the fish they catch, and engage in the sport from…

— Thaddeus Norris

My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy.

— Michael Gove

“I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour--or else throwing and throwing, and…

— George Eliot

God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing."

— Corrie Ten Boom

If commercial fishing were excluded from large areas of the sea, the total catch would be likely, paradoxically, to rise, due to…

— George Monbiot

It's mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It's not feeding the starving millions.…

— Sylvia Earle

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

— Herbert Hoover

If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.

— Alex Faickney Osborn

Cool! Now I can steal some rich old coot's Ferrari and go fishing for marlin with the same piece of jewelry.

— Jennifer Rardin