Quotes about 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. 

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.

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

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

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

But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.

Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off the Island of the Emperor Chin disappear on the ocean. Which way have they gone? More than a thousand years ago the mighty emperor Tsao Tsao cracked his whip and drove his army against the Tartars. He left us a poem: "Let us move east to the Stone Mountains." Today we still shiver in the autumn gale, in desolate winds, yet another man is in the world. Summer 1954

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.

I'd rather be fishing. [Executed in electric chair.]

Digging potatoes is always an adventure, somewhat akin to fishing. There is forever the possibility that the next cast -or the next thrust of the digging fork -will turn up a clunker.

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

As for me, tough duty though it may be, I continue to do my part for the commercial recreation industry. Fishing, boating, tennis, golf, running, hunting, and all of this. Horseshoes. It's tough duty. Somebody has to do it, and I'm going to keep on.

There are six things that "keep us going." •First, the instinct to live, which we apparently have no part in making or deciding about. •Second, group consciousness and the desire that we have to win the approbation of our fellows within the group. •Third, the various interests that we may find in life, such as religion or art or some such other branch of esthetics. •Fourth, in our climate the habit of work. •Fifth, the sheer joy of physical life that we find in hours of well-earned recreation after hard work -games, fishing, tramping the hills, a good book before an open fire. •Sixth, and most important, the general feeling that we have that there is some abstract goodness or rightness in the world with which we may cooperate in making the world a fine place for a splendid race of men, women and children to live in.

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

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

OVERWORK, n. A dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.