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Fishing Quotations That Make You Go Hmmm
Go fishing and you will undoubtedly find the serenity of the lazy day to be refreshing. It can be an oasis from the hectic pace of regular life and more than a few people have noted as such. Here is what they had to say from the humorous to the sublime.
Go fishing and you will undoubtedly find the serenity of the lazy day to be refreshing. It can be an oasis from the hectic pace of regular life and more than a few people have noted as such. Here is what they had to say from the humorous to the sublime.
There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. - Steven Wright
It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. - John Steinbeck
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. - Dave Barry
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. - Herbert Hoover
The trout do not rise in the cemetery, so you better do your fishing while you are still able. - Sparse Grey Hackle
The man who coined the phrase Money can’t buy happiness, never bought himself a good fly rod! - Reg Baird
Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it. - Ed Zern
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. - Patrick F. McManus
Eventually all things merge into one and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. - Norman Maclean
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration. - Izaak Walton
All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight. - John Steinbeck
Men and fish are alike. They both get into trouble when they open their mouths.
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
Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman. - Herbert Hoover
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles. - Doug Larson