Quotations about Fishing

[Tami]

There are two types of fisherman - those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish.  ~Author Unknown


Fishing is the sport of drowning worms.  ~Author Unknown


[T]his planet is covered with sordid men who demand that he who spends time fishing shall show returns in fish.  ~Leonidas Hubbard, Jr.


A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work.  ~Author Unknown


May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.  ~Irish Blessing


I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent.  ~Nick Lyons, Bright Rivers, 1977


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, The Philosophical Fisherman, 1969


There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.  ~Washington Irving


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


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


It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.  ~John Steinbeck


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.  ~Author Unknown


Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.  ~Author Unknown


Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.  ~Henry David Thoreau


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


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.  ~Author Unknown


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


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


Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.  ~Dave Barry


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.  ~Paul O'Neil, 1965


The best way to a fisherman's heart is through his fly.  ~Author Unknown


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.  ~Robert Altman

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.  ~Zenna Schaffer


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