Fishing Quotes · Page 8

I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball, I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping…

— Gene Pitney

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I grew up on a fishing village, a little river, South Carolina.

— Scott Bessent

I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's…

— Larry Norman

Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.

— Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of…

— Ken Kesey

Trout fishing is like any other sport. It is waste of words to try to give anyone who has never tried it…

— Cornelia Parker

“There’s always an opportunity to fish for something – even if it’s just for laughs or ideas.”

— Fennel Hudson

Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting…

— William Shakespeare

Wherever we go in the world we find other men speaking the same language, planning the same plans, dreaming the same dreams.…

— Roderick Haig-Brown

Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle…

— Farley Mowat

All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love…

— John Steinbeck

I learned to look up suddenly from a hatch or feeding frenzy and find myself momentarily removed from solid earth. I go…

— Joseph Monninger

Until fishing is properly regulated and contained, we should withdraw our consent. Save your plastic bags by all means, but if you…

— George Monbiot

What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient…

— William Shakespeare

A couple of months ago I went fishing with a buddy of mine, we pulled his boat into the dock, I lifted…

— Bill Engvall

On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact…

— Anonymous

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

— Thomas McGuane

The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their "soil," but will tell you that it is good enough for…

— Henry David Thoreau

When I get up at five in the morning to go fishing, I wake my wife up and ask, 'What'll it be…

— Robert Ruark

...secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water.

— Tom Sutcliffe

I started fishing with my dad on the River Lea in London.

— Paul Whitehouse

When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.

— Paul Schullery

Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace.

— Tony Bishop

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

— Izaak Walton