Fishes Quote by Izaak Walton Download Open image “[T]is not all fishing to fish.” — Izaak Walton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fishes Fishing
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 Copy Share Image
Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
Fishing can come as close to doing nothing as anything I can think of. — Ruth Rudner Copy Share Image
A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and turned to an equal pitch, and then one played upon, the… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly? — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Blessings we enjoy daily, and for most of them, because they be so common, we forget to pay our praises. But let not us,… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one fish was caught, he was writhing, then he was thrown against the side of the boat. You couldn't disguise what it was. This was what we did to animals to eat them. The animal went from… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross,… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
My kids all do love to hunt and fish. When they get together, I think that's what they get together more for than anything… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go fishing with… — Dan Mathews Copy Share Image
Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment, Steven watched the protests and the preparations with interest. The bird people were furious, the developers unmovable, and Steven was filled with relief that the fight wasn't his. Nothing here was his... He thought there should… — Maile Meloy Copy Share
Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there’s a current and just stare into the water. I don’t… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image