Fishing Quotes
+3Be patient and calm for no one can catch fish in anger.
- Herbert Hoover
+3Don’t tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.
– Mark Twain
+1He fishes well who uses a golden hook.
- Latin Proverb
+1It is not a fish until it is on the bank.
- Irish Proverb
+1Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.
- Edgar Watson Howe
+1Game fish are to valuable to be caught only once.
- Lee Wulff
+1Fly fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.
- Arnold Gingrich
+1A bad day’s fishing is better than a good day at work.
- Anonymous
+1All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.
- Herb Shriner
+1Here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling.
- William Shakespeare
+1The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.
- A.K. Best
+1Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout.
- Irish Proverb
+1If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.
- Vincent Van Gogh
+1May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.
- Irish Proverb
+1A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.
- Arnold Gingrich
+1Calling Fly Fishing a hobby is like calling Brain Surgery a job.
- Paul Schullery
+1Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
- Don Marquis
+1There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with a fisherman?
- Woody Allen
+1If fishing is interfering with your business,give up your business.
- Alfred W. Miller
+1Angling is extremely time consuming. That’s sort of the whole point.
- Thomas McGuane
+1I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent.
- Nick Lyons
+1The gods do not deduct from man’s allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
- Babylonian Proverb
+1In my family, there was no clear division between religion and fly fishing.
- Norman Maclean
+1Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
- Dave Barry
+1…of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trust worthy.
- William Sherwood
+1Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Some go to church and think about fishing, others go fishing and think about God.
- Tony Blake
+1Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
- Izaak Walton
+1The difference between fly fishers and worm dunkers is the quality of their excuses.
- Anonymous
+1If I’m not going to catch anything, then I ‘d rather not catch anything on flies.
- Bob Lawless
+1Fishing is a discipline in the equality of men for all men are equal before fish.
- Herbert Hoover
+1The fish and I were both stunned and disbelieving to find ourselves connected by a line.
- William Humphrey
+1There goes a saying, and ’twas shrewdly said, “Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.”
- Alexander Pope
+1It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.
- Theodore Gordon
+1Time is but the stream I go a fishing in. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
- Chuang Tzu
+1The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so that I could afford to hunt and fish.
- Sam Snead
+1We ask a simple question And that is all we wish: Are fishermen all liars? Or do only liars fish?
- William Sherwood
+1Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
+1All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish.
- Harold F. Blaisdell
