Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Milner

I love talk and I love fishing. I'm having a ball.

Moses

Never leave fish to find fish.

Neko Case

I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've been trying to be more dynamic with my voice, and not just singing on 10 all of the time out of terror.

Joe Brooks

Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

Mark Twain

In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish.

Harry S Truman

If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.

Miguel de Cervantes

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

John Wallace

It is public land and we will do our best to provide recreational activities. We are looking at initially allowing kayak access, wade fishing, bicycle access and walking access on some of the interior roads.

Maurice Strong

If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset.

Matthew Henry

To fish in troubled waters.

Mario Lopez

Like they say, you can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months fishing alone.

Henry Beard

Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers.

Henry David Thoreau

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

John C. Maxwell

Never open a can of worms unless you plan to go fishing.

Louis Nizer

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

John Buchan

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

Jack Adams

This is something I've always wanted. I grew up fishing and watching fishing shows on TV when I was a kid.

Stephen Leacock

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

Tim Blake Nelson

I've done about every kind of fishing you can imagine, but I've never noodled. And the reason I've never noodled is because I don't want to get bit by a water moccasin. I'm just too afraid of snakes.

Thomas Shadwell

I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.

Washington Irving

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

Vinnie Jones

I like Alaska for the salmon fishing - it's fantastic there. I usually stay in a log cabin with no one around for miles. I like to go with friends, but I'm also happy to be on my own with nature.

Yanni

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

Will Rogers

If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.

Zane Grey

Fishing is a condition of the mind wherein one cannot have a bad time.

Virginia Woolf

the profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not ...

Ted Williams

I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.

Lee Marvin

I only make movies to finance my fishing.

Samuel Johnson

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

Robert Peel

Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?

Tom Brokaw

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is the high church.