| Quote |
Author |
| Fishing is the sport of drowning worms. |
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| A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work. |
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| Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. |
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| Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. |
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| An angler is a man who spends rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won't let him do it at home. |
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| The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad. |
A.K. Best |
| The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing. |
Babylonian Proverb |
| All fishermen are liars; it's an occupational disease with them like housemaid's knee or editor's ulcers. |
Beatrice Cook, Till Fish Do Us Part, 1949 |
| If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. |
Doug Larson |
| All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish. |
Harold F. Blaisdell |
| Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. |
Henry David Thoreau |
| May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it. |
Irish Blessing |
| It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. |
John Steinbeck |
| This planet is covered with sordid men who demand that he who spends time fishing shall show returns in fish. |
Leonidas Hubbard, Jr |
| I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent. |
Nick Lyons, Bright Rivers, 1977 |
| There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind |
Washington Irving |
| We ask a simple question
And that is all we wish:
Are fishermen all liars?
Or do only liars fish? |
William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954 |
