Best Fisherman Quotes
120 Fisherman quotes by 107 unique authors
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If the gospel was of a nature to be propagated or maintained by the power of the world, God would not have intrusted it to…
— Martin Luther
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The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.
— Girolamo Savonarola
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A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.
— Roderick Haig-Brown
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I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.
— Wilfred Grenfell
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When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer.
— Gene Hill
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It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its…
— Rebecca Solnit
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We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.
— Jimmy Webb
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The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.
— T.H. White
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There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types…
— Martha Smith
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A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity…
— Willard Gaylin
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The fisherman of the Colombian coast must be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented the word sentipensante, or ‘feeling-thinking’ to define language…
— Rob Brezsny
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A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.
— Baden Powell de Aquino
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There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon
— Jack Nicklaus
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The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen's café
— Joseph Beach
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The inhabitants are numerous and happy... Throuhout the country the people do not kill any living creature, nor drink intoxicating liquor, they do not keep…
— Faxian
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When the snipe and the mussel struggle, the fisherman gets the benefit. Ancient Chinese saying
— Robert Greene
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Just as a fisherman must watch the ebb and flow of the tides, an investor and businessperson must be keenly aware of the subtle shifts…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination
— Jerome K. Jerome
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A positive attitude and an open mind are true characteristics of all good fishermen
— Kevin VanDam
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I am a woman. I am a fisherman. As I have said, I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl.
— Linda Greenlaw
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All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have…
— Wendell Berry
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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general…
— Karl Marx
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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
— Louis Nizer
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I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don't hunt. We're not gun folk.
— Nick Offerman
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