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Fishing Quotations that Make You Go Hmmm

Fishing is a seminal act that is so much more than just the technique of catching fish. Over the years, many a famous person has been quoted ruminating on it. Following are a few of the more pertinent quotes.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. - John Steinbeck

Even eminent chartered accountants are known, in their capacity as fishermen, blissfully to ignore differences between seven and ten inches, half a pound and two pounds, three fish and a dozen fish. - William Sherwood Fox

When a man picks up a fly rod for the first time, he may not know, he has been born again. - Joseph D. Farris

The trout do not rise in the cemetery, so you better do your fishing while you are still able. - Sparse Grey Hackle

Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts. - Charles Waterman

Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it. - Ed Zern

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

Eventually all things merge into one and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. - Norman Maclean

May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.

Fish come and go, but it is the memory of afternoons on the stream that endure. - E. Donnall Thomas

Men and fish are alike. They both get into trouble when they open their mouths.

When the beginner can cast his fly into his hat, eight times out of ten, at forty feet, he is a fly fisher; and so far as casting is concerned, a good one. - James A. Henshall

Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman. - Herbert Hoover

I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent. - Nick Lyons

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