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Quotes About Fishing

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
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
~ Samuel Johnson
I would like to go fishing and catch a fish stick. That would be convenient. I could easily get a job at Mrs. Paul's.
~ Mitch Hedberg
A peaceful refuge in which to rediscover each other, we thought, , not realizing that, while golf and fishing are Scotland's most popular outdoor sports, gossip is the most popular indoor sport.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I'm an outdoors girl - I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers, hunting.
~ Miranda Lambert
I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington.
~ Douglass North
I enjoy hunting, but if I had my choice to go deer hunting or bass fishing, I'd take bass fishing any day of the week. I enjoy both of them, but yeah, I'm a very outdoorsy guy.
~ Larry the Cable Guy
The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.
~ Vivienne Westwood
There's an absolute surety to the hands-on conservation lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping where you know you're going to consume today.
~ Ted Nugent
I'm an outdoor nut. If I'm not working, I'm on a tractor on my farm, hunting, fishing or climbing a mountain.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
Fishing is not a benign activity; it is hunting in the water.
~ Sharon Gannon
Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.
~ William Saroyan
Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.
~ Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
He eyed in the far corner of the room the carton of books they'd schlepped across the pond(ocean) They were both fearful of being stuck without a decent book, and who knew they would find everything from Virgil to Synge on the shelves of a fishing lodge?
~ Jan Karon
Fishin' promotes patience, Madelaine! Patience! A boy has t' learn he can't always have what he wants, when he wants it. Look at th' state of th' world. Most of th' troubles t'day come from havin' no patience. An' take perseverance, that's a absolute requirement if a boy's gon' make anything of hisself.
~ Jan Karon
The karma of the fishermen spins out as they head out across the lake dropping a line into the depths— delighted when they see a golden-eyed fish, and unhappy when they do not.
~ Jane Hawes
Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more. Roaming around all that time with a bunch of men, fishing; and Sermons on the Mount. Abandoning women.
~ Edna O'Brien
The lakes in Washington State give us tons of crawfish.
~ Tom Douglas
As a teenage fisherman, I watched and followed terns to find fish. Later, I studied terns for my Ph.D.
~ Carl Safina
The first time you catch a fish, it's amazing. You make contact with this whole other world that exists, hidden, under the water.
~ Jeremy Wade
I do fish, and as a matter of fact, I used to do a lot of deep sea fishing, but as far as going into the water, I don't go out deep into the water.
~ Ving Rhames
Our lands and waters share incredible bounty and beauty. Trekking across forests and mountains, exploring beaches in search of shellfish, and fishing from clear waters are all part of our regional way of life and economy.
~ Jay Inslee
There's fresh fish, and then there's fresh fish. Samoa is ranked as one of the best places for game fishing in all the world, and runs thick in the waters off the island chain. In fact, it's used as an edible currency in local markets. The day I fished there, we caught loads of yellowfin.
~ Andrew Zimmern
I think that the Japanese - and I do love Japanese cuisine and adore Japanese food culture - I think that they're going to plow through the entire world's fishing. They're going to eat everything anyways.
~ David Chang