Angling Quote by Roderick Haig-Brown Download Open image “Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.” — Roderick Haig-Brown ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Angling Excuse Excuse Near Fish Fishing Fishing Excuse Inspirational Near Rivers Rivers
Fishing can come as close to doing nothing as anything I can think of. — Ruth Rudner Copy Share Image
I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
Fishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and there's nothing… — Bob Gibson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you're looking for a wonderful way to spend time, take up fishing. — Anita Bryant Copy Share Image
The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything,… — Gladys Taber Copy Share Image
A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be. — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
Wherever we go in the world we find other men speaking the same language, planning the same plans, dreaming the same dreams. And one… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish. — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
I have two hopes for the future. The first and lesser one is that game commissions will one day have sense enough to set… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except that we like it and it makes us think and feel. — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
I have been, all my life, what is known as a conservationist. It seems clear beyond possibility of argument that any given generation of… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations.… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers. — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
I remember the good evenings I have fished, even the ones that realised material hopes not by the fish that came to the fly,… — Roderick Haig-Brown 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
Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish. — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
In every species of fish I've angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that… — Ray Bergman Copy Share Image
“Smile, tip your traditional hat, and enjoy your time by the water.” — Fennel Hudson Copy Share Image
I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something… — Thomas McGuane 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
“There’s always an opportunity to fish for something – even if it’s just for laughs or ideas.” — Fennel Hudson Copy Share Image
“At all times and in all places, in season and out of season, time is now and England, place is now and England; past… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
