Fishing Quotes
"Be patient and calm - for no one can catch fish in anger."
-Herbert Hoover
"Soon after I embraced the sport of angling I became convinced that I should never be able to enjoy it if I had to rely on the cooperation of the fish."
-Sparse Grey Hackle
"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 McManus
"Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point."
-Thomas McGuane
"The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them."
-John Gierach
"The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming; thus it is with time."
-Leonardo DaVinci
"There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot."
-Steven Wright
"If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere."
-Vincent Van Gogh
"The solution to any problem -- work, love, money, whatever -- is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be."
-John Gierach
"Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip."
-John Gierach
"If fishing is interfering with your business, give up your business."
-Sparse Grey Hackle
"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."
-Doug Larson
"Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife."
-John Voelker
"My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it."
-Koos Brandt
"Fishing is not an escape from life, but often a deeper immersion into it..."
-Harry Middleton
"If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago."
-Zane Grey
"When you are on the river, ocean or in the woods, you are the closest to the truth you'll ever get."
-Jack Leonard
"If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world."
-Will Rogers
"I am firmly convinced that the ideal combination leading to a happy life is to have the time to both fish and read."
-Brian Murphy
"I salute the gallantry and uncompromising standards of wild trout, and their tastes in landscapes."
-John Madson
"I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself."
-Joseph Monniger
"Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts."
-Charles Waterman
"Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives."
-Gwen Cooper and Evelyn Haas
"Only when the last tree has been felled, the last river poisoned and the last fish caught, man will know, that he cannot eat money."
-Cree Indian saying
"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."
-Henry David Thoreau