Fisherman Quotes

• The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Life, Leadership, Determination

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• A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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

  Charles W. Waterman

  Jobs, Simple, Lakes

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• The moment where the fisherman catches the fish, happiness and agony, light and darkness, joy and death come face to face!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Light, Agony

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• What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

  Iggy Pop

  Drinking, Christ, Hung

  "Iggy Pop's Trail of Destruction" by Erik Hedegaard, www.rollingstone.com. December 11, 2003.

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• Good things come to those who wait.

  Jess C Scott

  Inspirational, Funny, Patience

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Porcelain”, p.147, jessINK

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• Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect

  Norman Maclean

  Fishing, Perfect, Waiting

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.37, University of Chicago Press

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• A positive attitude and an open mind are true characteristics of all good fishermen

  Kevin VanDam

  Attitude, Mind, Characteristics

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• 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.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Beer

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• 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 D. Voelker

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

  Ovid

  Swimming, Lakes, Sea

  Ovid, John Henry Mozley (1979). “Ovid”, Loeb Classical Library

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• There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life Lesson, Great Ones

  Ernest Hemingway (1963). “老人与海”

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• There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon

  Jack Nicklaus

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Inspiration, Cottages, Palaces

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• Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Marine, Men

  'Pericles, Prince Of Tyre' (1606-8) act 2, sc. 1, l. [29]

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  Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Sports

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• All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.

  Herb Shriner

  Fishing, Needs, Worms

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• Good things come to those who hustle

  Chuck Noll

  Fitness, Patience, Workout

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

  John Buchan

  Fishing, Trout, Charm

  John Buchan (1921). “Great Hours in Sport”, London : T. Nelson

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• The fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees and the shadows. All his approaches are gentle and indirect. He times himself to the meandering, soliloquizing stream; he addresses himself to it as a lover to his mistress; he woos it and stays with it till he knows its hidden secrets. Where it deepens his purpose deepens; where it is shallow he is indifferent. He knows how to interpret its every glance and dimple; its beauty haunts him for days.

  John Burroughs

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.

  Martial

  Three, Steps, Overboard

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• Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

  Herbert Hoover

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Herbert Hoover (1963). “Fishing for Fun - and to Wash Your Soul”

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• Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout.

  Paul Schullery

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.35, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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  There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Sports, Sarcastic

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• Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

  Ernest Hemingway

  May

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.4, Hamilton Books

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