100+ Angling Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Jobs, Fishing, Brain, Funny Fish, Funny Fishing

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

- Patrick F. McManus

source: Patrick F. McManus (1984). “Never Sniff A Gift Fish”, p.157, Macmillan

topic: Fishing, Fans, Fly Fishing, Hunting And Fishing, Funny Fish

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

source: John Buchan (1921). “Great Hours in Sport”, London : T. Nelson

topic: Fishing, Charm, Pursuit, Elusive, Funny Fish

The two best times to fish is when it's raining and when it ain't.

- Patrick F. McManus

topic: Rain, Fishing, Two, Fly Fishing, Funny Fish

What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.

- Patrick F. McManus

topic: Tourists, Insects, Term, Funny Fishing, Angling

Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon.

- Patrick F. McManus

source: Patrick F. McManus (1984). “Never Sniff A Gift Fish”, p.25, Macmillan

topic: Fishing, Taste, Salmon, Carp, Angling

Aging is for people who don't know any better.

- Tony Horton

topic: People, Aging, Angling, Great Fishing, Bumper

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.

- George Carlin

topic: Humor, Beer, Men, Stupid Funny, Wise Chinese

I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.

- Roderick Haig-Brown

topic: Regret, Fishing, Remember, Fly Fishing, Angling

I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution.

- John Gierach

source: John Gierach (2001). “Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

topic: Thinking, Fishing, Forever, Mainstream Culture, Fly Fishing

I only make movies to finance my fishing.

- Lee Marvin

topic: Fishing, Finance, Hunting And Fishing, Angling

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

- Ann Landers

topic: Home, Men, Fishing, Fly Fishing, Catching Fish

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

- Don Marquis

topic: Liars, Lying, Lakes, Old Clothes, Fly Fishing

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

- Herbert Hoover

topic: Sea, Fishing, Rivers, Hunting And Fishing, Fishing Boats

My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

- Norman Maclean

topic: Art, Father, Grace, Angling, Trout Fishing

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

- Doug Larson

topic: Stress, Fishing, People, Hunting And Fishing, Stress And Life

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

- John Ruskin

topic: Powerful, Rivers, Lakes, Fish Tanks, Angling

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Inspirational, Uplifting, Sports, Hunting And Fishing, Fly Fishing

All men are equal before fish.

- Herbert Hoover

topic: Funny, Witty, Laughter, Shimmer, Meekness

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

- George Herbert

topic: Inspiration, Greatness, Cynical, Angling, Trout Fishing

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

source: "Robert Altman: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

topic: Sea, Fishing, Rivers, Fly Fishing, Funny Fish

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

- Steven Wright

topic: Years, Sea, Fishing, Catching Fish, Fish Tanks

Good things come to those who initiate.

- Susan RoAne

topic: Good Things, Inspiration And Motivation, Inspirational Beauty, Inspirational Health And Fitness, Inspirational Student

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

- Steven Wright

topic: Sarcastic, Sports, Fun, Hunting And Fishing, Fly Fishing

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Fishing, Fool, Sticks, Angling

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

- Izaak Walton

topic: Artist, Men, Born, Angling, Anglers

God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo.

- Dave Mustaine

topic: Fishing, People, Bars, Funny Bumper Sticker, Angling

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime

- Jimmy Cannon

topic: Fishing, Drink, Excuse, Hunting And Fishing, Daytime Tv

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

topic: Mother, Hate, Believe, Fly Fishing, Distaste

Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has ever improved on that statement.

- John Gierach

topic: Fishing, Cotton, Anglers, Angling

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