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“There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.”
Stephen Wright Quotes |
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“The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of that which is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope”
Herbert Hoover Quotes |
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“Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.”
Dave Barry Quotes |
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“A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other”
Samuel Johnson Quotes |
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“Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime”
Jimmy Cannon Quotes |
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“Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.”
Don Marquis Quotes |
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“After that first trout I was alone in there. But I didn'tknow it until later.”
Richard Brautigan Quotes |
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“A stick and a string with a fly at one end and a fool at the
other.”
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“A stick and a string with a fly at one end and a fool at the
other.”
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“The man that weds for greedy wealth,
He goes a fishing fair,
But often times he gets a frog,
Or very little share.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: Pepysian Garland (318)
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“A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire,
A winder and barrel, will help thy desire
In killing a Pike; but the forked stick,
With a slit and a bladder,--and that other fine trick,
Which our artists call snap, with a goose or a duck,--
Will kill two for one, if you have any luck;
The gentry of Shropshire do merrily smile,
To see a goose and a belt the fish to beguile;
When a Pike suns himselfe and a-frogging doth go,
The two-inched hook is better, I know,
Than the ord'nary snaring: but still I must cry,
When the Pike is at home, minde the cookery.”
Thomas Barker Quotes Source: The Art of Angling
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“The first men that our Saviour dear
Did choose to wait upon Him here,
Blest fishers were; and fish the last
Food was, that He on earth did taste:
I therefore strive to follow those,
Whom He to follow Him hath chose.”
William Basse (Bas) Quotes Source: The Angler's Song, also found in Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler
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“Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a
cord which thou lettest down?
Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through
with a thorn?”
Bible Quotes Source: Job (ch. XLI, v. 1-2)
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“Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him,
We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship
immediately; and that night they caught nothing.”
Bible Quotes Source: John (ch. XXI, v. 3)
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“For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught
of the fishes that they had taken:
And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were
partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from
henceforth, thou shalt catch men.”
Bible Quotes Source: Luke (ch. V, v. 9-10)
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“And angling too, that solitary vice,
What Izaak Walton sings or says:
The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet
Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XIII, st. 106)
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“Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XIII, st. 106)
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“As the lone Angler, patient man,
At Mewry-Water, or the Banne,
Leaves off, against his placid wish,
Impaling worms to torture fish.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XIII, st. 106)
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“Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ;
His wife he cabined with him and his boy,
And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.”
George Crabbe Quotes Source: Peter Grimes
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“For angling-rod he took a sturdy oak;
For line, a cable that in storm ne'er broke;
His hook was such as heads the end of pole
To pluck down house ere fire consumes it whole;
This hook was bated with a dragon's tail,--
And then on rock he stood to bob for whale.”
Sir William Davenant Quotes Source: Brittania Triumphans (p. 15)
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“Of all the world's enjoyments
That ever valued were,
There's none of our employments
With fishing can compare.
- Thomas Durfee (or D'Urfey),”
Thomas Durfee (or D'Urfey) Quotes Source: Pills to Purge Melancholy--Massaniello--Fisherman's Song
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“The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.”
Eugene Field Quotes Source: Our Biggest Fish
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“The end of fishing is not angling, but catching.”
Thomas Fuller Quotes Source: Gnomolia (no. 4497)
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“It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.”
Thomas Fuller Quotes Source: Gnomologia
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“Still he fishes that catches one.”
Thomas Fuller Quotes Source: Gnomologia (no. 4262)
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