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Never a fishermen need there be
If fishes could hear as well as see.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Notes and Queries (ser. IV, ii, 94)
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The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into
the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the
waters shall languish.
Author: Bible
Source: Isaiah (ch. XIX, v. 8)
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And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of
men.
Author: Bible
Source: Matthew (ch. IV, v. 19)
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The fisher droppeth his net in the stream,
And a hundred streams are the same as one;
And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream;
And what is it all, when all is done?
The net of the fisher the burden breaks,
And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.
Author: Alice Cary
Source: Lover's Diary
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Oh, the gallant fisher's life,
It is the best of any
'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife,
And 'tis beloved of many.
Author: John Chalkhill
Source: Piscator's Song, found in Izaak Walton's "The Compleat Angler"
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Praise be to Nero's Neptune
The Titanic sails at dawn
And everybody's shouting
"Which Side Are You On?"
And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot
Fighting in the captain's tower
While calypso singers laugh at them
And fishermen hold flowers.
Author: Bob Dylan
Source: Desolation Row, a song
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The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish.
[Lat., Potuit fortasse minoria
Piscator quam piscis emi.]
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (satire IV, l. 26)
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Three fishers went sailing away to the west,
Away to the west as the sun went down;
Each thought on the woman who loved him the best,
And the children stood watching them out of the town.
Author: Charles Kingsley
Source: The Three Fishers
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Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of
course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends
think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana
where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not
start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic
half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my
soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a
four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.
Author: Norman Fitzroy Maclean
Source: A River Runs Through It
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
[Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
Source: Epigrams (bk. VI, ep. 63, l. 5)
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A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
Source: Epigrams (bk. VI, ep. 63, l. 5)
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He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are
swimming.
[Lat., Qui sustinet hamos,
Novit, quae multo pisce natentur aquae.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Ars Amatoria (bk. I, l. 47)
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Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net,
leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim
about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fishermen
will snatch it out in his own good time.
Author: Ivan Turgenev
Source: On the Eve (ch. 1), (Gilbert Gardiner translation)
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No man is born an Artist nor an Angler.
Author: Izaak Walton
Source: The Compleat Angler (Author's Preface)
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Oh the brave Fisher's life,
It is the best of any,
'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife,
And 'tis belov'd of many:
Other joys Are but toys;
Only this Lawful is,
For our skill Breeds no ill,
But content and pleasure.
Author: Izaak Walton
Source: The Compleat Angler (ch. XI), (first edition)
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I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.
Author: Izaak Walton
Source: The Compleat Angler (pt. I, ch. I)
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This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest
men.
Author: Izaak Walton
Source: The Compleat Angler (pt. I, ch. VIII)
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Meek Walton's heavenly memory.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: Ecclesiastical Sonnets (pt. III, no. 5)
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