Fishing Quotes

It is to be observed that "angling" is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. (Stephen Leacock)

There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.

Steven Wright

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

Steven Wright

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.

Ernest Hemingway

I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing.

Tom Felton

Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

Samuel Johnson

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

Max Hastings

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

Doug Larson

One of the cries from the people was, don't forget us. They have a long road ahead of them. Operation Blessing has found those little fishing towns. They will not be getting what other towns are getting from the government.

Connie Sellecca

When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.

Norman MacCaig

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 that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason. (Norman MacCaig)

Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.

Ric Keller

I don't believe in rock bottom. Rock bottom is like a fishing term.

Charlie Sheen

I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?

Kiefer Sutherland

Out of the East on an Irish stallion came bounty hunter Dan. His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man. He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river. Pulled his gun and got the drop. He said "Pete you think you've changed but you have not."

Bruce Springsteen

If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

Zane Grey

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

Garrison Keillor

I don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now.

Paul Watson

Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.

William Saroyan

If pinpointing God's presence were really that simple, then he supposed the beaches would be more crowded in the mornings. They would be filled with people on their own quests, instead of people jogging or walking their dogs or fishing in the surf.

Nicholas Sparks

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish. (Yanni)

We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.

Joseph Campbell

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

Don Marquis

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Herbert Hoover

What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N. S. [National Socialism], but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement [namely the encounter between global technology and modern humanity] is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities.

Martin Heidegger

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