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A Good List of Fishing Quotes
Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” - Henry David Thoreau
“The trout do not rise in the cemetery, so you better do your fishing while you are still able.” - Sparse Grey Hackle
“Next to prayer, fishing is the most personal relationship of man.” - Herbert Hoover
“To go fishing is the chance to wash one’s soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of sun on blue water. It brings meekness and inspiration from the decency of nature, charity toward tackle-makers, patience toward fish, a mockery of profits and egos, a quieting of hate, a rejoicing that you do not have to decide a darned thing until next week. And it is discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.” - Herbert Hoover
“The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.” - A.K. Best
”All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish.” - Harold F. Blaisdell
”My Biggest worry is that when I’m dead and gone, my wife will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it.” - Koos Brandt
”If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.” - Doug Larson
”The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted air.” - Theodore Gordon
”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
”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
”Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher’s salary.” - Patrick F. McManus
”Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.” - Herbert Hoover
”There’s a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.” - Steven Wright
