Boat Quotes - Page 36

• The books all say that barracuda rarely eat people, but very few barracuda can read.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Lakes, Sea

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up”, p.135, Ballantine Books

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• We suggest that in the next decades fisheries management will have to emphasize the rebuilding of fish populations embedded within functional food webs, within large 'no-take' marine protected areas.

  Daniel Pauly

  Marine, Lakes, Sea

  Daniel Pauly (2010). “5 Easy Pieces: The Impact of Fisheries on Marine Ecosystems”, p.45, Island Press

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• They used to have a fish on the menu that was smoked, grilled and peppered They did everything to this fish but pistol-whip it and dress it in Bermuda shorts.

  Bill Geist

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• All the charm of the angler's life would be lost but for these hours of thought and memory. All along the brook, all day on lake or river, while he takes his sport, he thinks. All the long evenings in camp, or cottage, or inn, he tells stories of his own life, hears stories of his friend's lives, and if alone calls up the magic of memory.

  William Cowper Prime

  Sports, Memories, Thinking

  William Cowper Prime (1873). “I Go A-fishing”, p.187

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• It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method. The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. No sportsman however, will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Charles Dudley Warner (1878). “In the Wilderness”, p.26, Syracuse University Press

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• What pretty bright trout there are in this bold rock creek! It would full be called a river in England, and so it is!

  Thaddeus Norris

  Fishing, Rivers, Lakes

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• Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away

  Farley Mowat

  Son, Lakes, Sea

  Farley Mowat (1990). “The New Founde Land”, Seal Books

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• If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Men, Lakes, Sea

  Mark Kurlansky (1998). “Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World”, p.35, Penguin

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• Aquatic animals suffer from the disadvantage that they cannot scream when in pain, so we find it hard to gauge the degree of their agony. If fish could scream, angling purely for sport would be outlawed without delay.

  Desmond Morris

  Sports, Pain, Animal

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• Don't talk anybody, don't come near! Can't you see the fish might hear? He thinks I'm playing with a piece of string; He thinks I'm another sort of funny thing, But he doesn't know I'm fishing - He doesn't know I'm fishing. That's what I'm doing - Fishing.

  A. A. Milne

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

  A. A. Milne (2011). “Now We Are Six”, p.68, Egmont UK

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• A feller's glad to be a friend, Out fishin'. A helpin' hand he'll always lend, Out fishin' The brotherhood of rod and line An' sky an' stream is always fine; Men come real close to God's design, Out fishin'. A feller isn't plotting schemes, Out fishin'. He's only busy with his dreams, Out fishin' His livery is a coat of tan; His creed, to do the best he can; A feller's always mostly man Out fishin'.

  Edgar Guest

  Dream, Real, Men

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Out Fishin'”

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• Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.

  John Gierach

  Successful, Persistence, Lakes

  John Gierach (2010). “Even Brook Trout Get The Blues”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps the time has come to formulate a moral code which would govern our relations with the great creatures of the sea as well as with those on dry land. That this will come to pass is my dear wish.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• If little fish get eaten by bigger fish, and bigger fish get eaten by bigger fish... what happens when there are no little fish? The world's populations of little fish are being harvested to make catfood!? This nonsense has to stop. Feed a fish a cat a day!

  Tony Bishop

  Cat, Lakes, Sea

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• God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may see all Creatures; Even all that on the earth is to be found,! As if the world were in deep waters drowned.

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Lakes, Deep Water, Sea

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• An excellent angler, and now with God.

  Izaak Walton

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 4

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• ...But some of the ideas are ridiculous. Such as matching the hatch. Of course there are times when you have a fly as alike as possible to the flies on the water. But casting and accuracy and how you present your fly and how fast it gets there and how fast it swims are all more important than matching the hatch.

  Charles Ritz

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.

  George Crabbe

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  George Crabbe (1855). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe. With Life. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.57

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• Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

  Washington Irving

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Washington Irving (1829). “The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...”

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• As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler.

  George Orwell

  War, Thinking, Lakes

  George Orwell (1969). “Coming Up for Air”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.

  Ovid

  Art, Boys, Sea

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• Fishing, if I a fisher may protest, Of pleasures is the sweetest of sports the best, Of exercises the most excellent, Of recreations the most innocent. But now the sport is marred, and why you ask? Fishes decrease, and fishers multiply.

  Thomas Bastard

  Sports, Exercise, Lakes

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• It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture two animals at once for our amusement.

  Thomas Young

  Animal, Lakes, Sea

  Thomas Young (1798). “An Essay on Humanity to Animals”, p.90

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• In the name of sense, man, if God made fish to be eaten, what difference does it make if I enjoy the killing of them before I eat them? You would have none but a fisherman by trade do it, and then you would have him utter a sigh, a prayer, and a pious ejaculation at each cod or haddock that he killed.

  William Cowper Prime

  Prayer, Men, Differences

  William Cowper Prime (1876). “I Go A-fishing”, p.266

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• Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

  Harold Russell

  Thoughtful, Lakes, Sea

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