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Fishing Quotes by Izaak Walton
- Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so...
- No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.
- Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.
- I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.
- It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.
- I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
- Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
More Fishing Quotes
- Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon
- I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive. — Joseph Barbera
- Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. — Dave Barry
- The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins. — Dave Barry
- Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below,… — Saint Basil
- This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and… — Aneurin Bevan
- One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but… — Wade Boggs
- Probably fishing is my first passion. — Luke Bryan
- My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away.… — Luke Bryan
- The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for… — John Buchan
- There's no taking trout with dry breeches. — Miguel de Cervantes
- Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat… — Alex Blackwell