Fishing Quotes
Most popular fishing quotes
![If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. - Doug Larson quote.](/img/q/82/12882A-if-people-concentrated-on-the-really-important-things-life-thered-doug-larson.png)
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
![There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. - Steven Wright quote.](/img/q/32/13632A-theres-a-fine-line-between-fishing-standing-shore-like-idiot-steven-wright.png)
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.
![Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. - Herbert Hoover quote.](/img/q/88/23088A-fishing-is-much-more-than-fish-it-is-great-occasion-herbert-hoover.png)
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
![Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. - Ovid quote.](/img/q/89/23089A-luck-affects-everything-let-your-hook-always-be-cast-stream-ovid.png)
Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
![A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other. - Samuel Johnson quote.](/img/q/90/23090A-a-fishing-rod-is-a-stick-with-hook-at-one-samuel-johnson.png)
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
![All men are equal before fish. - Herbert Hoover quote.](/img/q/91/23091A-all-men-are-equal-before-fish-herbert-hoover.png)
All men are equal before fish.
![The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches. - Mary Astor quote.](/img/q/23/31123A-the-man-who-goes-fishing-gets-something-more-than-fish-mary-astor.png)
The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.
People who fish know that life is a morality play in which you are sometimes the victor, sometimes vanquished. It is all of life's lessons in the space of a morning.
Many Americans talk about fishing with the suspicious insistence with which middle-aged Frenchmen with stomach trouble talk about food and middle-aged Italians talk about love.
![If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church. - Tom Brokaw quote.](/img/q/26/31126A-if-fishing-is-a-religion-fly-fishing-is-high-church-tom-brokaw.png)
If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
![The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. - Sir John Buchan quote.](/img/q/27/31127A-the-charm-of-fishing-is-that-it-is-pursuit-what-sir-john-buchan.png)
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
![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 quote.](/img/q/28/31128A-somebody-just-back-of-you-while-you-are-fishing-is-ernest-hemingway.png)
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.
In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.
![Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. - Don Marquis quote.](/img/q/30/31130A-fishing-is-a-delusion-entirely-surrounded-by-liars-old-clothes-don-marquis.png)
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
Catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves fear and anxiety.
Deep down I've always known fly-fishing is to the rest of fishing what high seduction is to rape.
![There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. - Steven Wright quote.](/img/q/33/31133A-theres-a-fine-line-between-fishing-just-standing-shore-like-steven-wright.png)
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
The days a man spends fishing or spends hunting should not be deducted from the time that he's on earth. In other words, if I fish today, that should be added to the amount of time I get to live. That's the way I look at recreation. That's why I'll be a big conservation, environmental President, because I plan to fish and hunt as much as I possibly can.
![Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. - Henry David Thoreau quote.](/img/q/21/53221A-many-men-go-fishing-all-of-their-lives-without-knowing-henry-david-thoreau.png)
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.