Fishing Quotes

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

Men, After, Lives

You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.
Mitch Hedberg

Show, Fish, Late

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

Idiot, Between, Line

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

Girl, Bad, Someone

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

Last, Year, Fish

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
Ted Hughes

Good, Yourself, Self

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

Life, Important, Shortage

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

Hope, Series, Pursuit

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

Great, May, Fish

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.
Garrison Keillor

Life, Love, Good

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
Dave Barry

Boring, Fish, Unless

I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing.
Tom Felton

When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.
Paris Hilton

Family, Dad, Big

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

Liars, Old, Clothes

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

Today, Lifestyle, Hunting

I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.
Tiger Woods

Nature, Mind, Game

There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.
Tom Felton

Write, Reading, Books

Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.
Jeff Foxworthy

Jesus, Off, Guys

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
Izaak Walton

Business, Gone, Aside

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Good, Friend, Again

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
John James Audubon

Music, Moment, Knew

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
Herbert Hoover

Respect, Two, Prayer

I'm an outdoors girl - I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers, hunting.
Miranda Lambert

Girl, Hunting, Outdoors

I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.
Jack Nicklaus

Reason, Fish, Catch

Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.
E. W. Howe

Seems, Favorite

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
Stephen Leacock

Fish, Name, Observed

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

Drink, Excuse, Daytime

I'm big into fishing, but I've never been much of a hunter. I never was really raised around it a whole lot, so I never got a chance to do it a whole lot.
Joe Nichols

Big, Around, Whole

I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?
Kiefer Sutherland

Life, Amazing, Father

If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook.
Lee Trevino

Bad, Focus, Getting

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