Quotes on fishing
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
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Dave Barry Quotes
All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish.
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Harold F. Blaisdell Quotes
Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.
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Paul Schullery Quotes
Even if you've been fishing for three hours and haven't gotten anything except poison ivy and sunburn, you're still better off than the worm.
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Author Unknown Quotes
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 over just staying home.
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Roderick Haig-Brown Quotes
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
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John Buchan Quotes
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
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Ernest Hemingway Quotes
I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.
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Robert Altman Quotes
Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years.
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Charles Haas Quotes
Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.
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Roderick Haig-Brown Quotes
There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.
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Washington Irving Quotes
Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.
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Jim Harrison Quotes
Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend.
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Zenna Schaffer Quotes
There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process.
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Paul O'Neil Quotes
Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.
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Patrick F. McManus Quotes
May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.
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Irish Blessing Quotes
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
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Doug Larson Quotes
I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent.
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Nick Lyons Quotes
The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.
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A.K. Best Quotes
Good things come to those who bait.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Catching fish is as incidental to fishing as making babies is to fucking.
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William Humphrey Quotes
Even eminent chartered accountants are known, in their capacity as fishermen, blissfully to ignore differences between seven and ten inches, half a pound and two pounds, three fish and a dozen fish.
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William Sherwood Fox Quotes
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly.
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Jack Ohman Quotes
All fishermen are liars; it's an occupational disease with them like housemaid's knee or editor's ulcers.
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Beatrice Cook Quotes
Gone fishin', be back at dark-thirty!
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Author Unknown Quotes
It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.
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John Steinbeck Quotes
There are two types of fisherman - those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish.
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Author Unknown Quotes
The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
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Babylonian Proverb Quotes
... of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy.
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William Sherwood Fox Quotes
"Carpe Diem" does not mean "fish of the day."
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Author Unknown Quotes
This planet is covered with sordid men who demand that he who spends time fishing shall show returns in fish.
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Leonidas Hubbard Quotes
A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work.
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Author Unknown Quotes