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| 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 |
| 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, |
| 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, |
| 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 |
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| 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, |
| 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, |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ~ John Buchan |
| Fishing is a… discipline in the equality of men – for all men are equal before fish. ~ Herbert Hoover |
| Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. ~ Paul Schullery |
| …of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy. ~ William Sherwood Fox, |
| …trout that doesn’t think two jumps and several runs ahead of the average fisherman is mighty apt to get fried. ~ Beatrice Cook, |