Accomplishment Quote by William Cowper Prime

Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like…

— Norman MacCaig

Fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egoism, soothes our troubles and shames…

— Herbert Hoover

What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!

— D. H. Lawrence

No lady is ever a gentleman.

— James Branch Cabell

Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

— Herbert Hoover

Flying is the best possible thing for women.

— Raymonde de Laroche

If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.

— Harriet Quimby

To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of…

— Herbert Hoover

One should not be adventurous being a woman.

— Sheila Dikshit

Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching…

— John Gierach

“I fish because I love to. Because I love the environs where trout are found, which are invariably beautiful, and hate the environs where…

— Robert Traver

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

— Patrick F. McManus