Fisherman Quotes - Page 5

• Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

  Zane Grey

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Zane Grey (2000). “Tales of Fishing Virgin Sea”, p.154, Derrydale Press

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• When you're on a boat, 15 nautical miles off the coast and you're with a bunch of fishermen, they don't give two shits about who you are.

  Tanc Sade

  Two, Giving, Nautical

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• I am a woman. I am a fisherman. As I have said, I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl.

  Linda Greenlaw

  Said

  Linda Greenlaw (2000). “The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey”, Hyperion

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• A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels.

  Herbert Hoover

  Winter, Hours, Secure

  Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945”

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• There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.

  Fitz-Greene Halleck

  Twilight, Passion, Heart

  Fitz-Greene Halleck (1827). “Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems”, p.31

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• A trout fisherman is something that defieth understanding.

  Corey Ford

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• I can't sit and compare my trouble to Brian Wilson but I came from a blue-collar family of fishermen. Music was an escape and a way for me to dream of better things and a better place to be. Let's just say I was an insecure, scared kid.

  Michael Buble

  Dream, Kids, Insecure

  "Michael Bublé leaves his comfort zone". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• However far I gaze Neither cherry blossoms nor Crimson leaves are in sight. Only a fisherman's hut on the shore In the autumnal evening.

  Fujiwara no Teika

  Sight, Evening, Cherry Blossom

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• On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Circles, World, Bees

  Czeslaw Milosz (2017). “Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004”, p.54, Penguin UK

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• The fisherman of the Colombian coast must be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented the word sentipensante, or ‘feeling-thinking’ to define language that speaks the truth. Eduardo Galeano

  Rob Brezsny

  Thinking, Doctors, Feelings

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.180, Frog Books

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• The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

  John D. Voelker

  Children, Rivers, Lakes

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• As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.

  Paul Schullery

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Paul Schullery (2008). “Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir”, p.4, UNM Press

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• The difference between hunting and fishing is that hunters seek their prey while fishermen try to become prey; they do their best to make their lures look attractive and vulnerable so that fish will attack them.

  Walter D. Wetherell

  Hunting, Sea, Fishing

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• From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sea, Broken, Gold

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1931). “The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche”

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• I love rainy and bad-weather days because this type of weather gives me a mental advantage, especially when I'm fishing in a tournament. When the weather is inclement, most fishermen start thinking of reasons why they can't catch bass. But, because I fish so often in bad weather, I'm thinking of all the reasons I can catch bass in bad weather conditions.

  Gary A. Klein

  Thinking, Fishing, Weather

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• Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.

  Libba Bray

  Emo, Band, Said

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• This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draft.

  Robin Hobb

  Night, Men, Hands

  Robin Hobb (2014). “The Farseer Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest”, p.1021, Del Rey

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• The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G.K. Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a 'twitch upon the thread' draws the fish to land.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Unique, Land, Play

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• As for myself, I do not believe in loggers, I believe in trees. I do not believe in fishermen, I believe in fish. I do not believe in miners, I believe in the rocks beneath my feet. I do not believe in pie in the sky spirituality, I believe in rainbows, rivers, mountains, and moss. I do not believe in environmentalists, I believe in the environment. I am a proud traitor to my species in alliance with my mother the Earth in opposition to those who would destroy her, those parasites who believe the Earth is here to serve human interests.

  Paul Watson

  Mother, Believe, Sky

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• The depressing thing about an Englishman's traditional love of animals is the dishonesty thereof ... Get a barbed hook into the upper lip of a salmon, drag him endlessly around the water until he loses his strength, pull him to the bank, hit him on the head with a stone, and you may well become fisherman of the year. Shoot.the salmon and you'll never be asked again.

  Clement Freud

  Depressing, Animal, Years

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• Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Sports, Country

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• Manifestation is an act of trust. It is the soul pouring itself out into its world, like a fisherman casting a net to gather in the fish he seeks; with each cast properly made, we will bring what we need to us, but first we must hurl ourselves into the depths without knowing just what lies beneath us.

  David Spangler

  Lying, Knowing, Soul

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• Sit around the bars, talked to people, ate in the restaurants, and chatted with the old ladies on the street. Fishermen are pretty much that way.

  Donna Leon

  People, Bars, Way

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• During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to go on a lot more before I hang up my waders

  John D. Voelker

  Fishing, Careers, Rivers

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• A standard saying among fly fishermen is that trout spend anywhere from 80 to 90 percent of their time feeding below the water's surface on the immature forms of aquatic insects. Some anglers are even more precise, but whatever the exact percentage , it's safe to say that to fully appreciate any tailwater fishery you will have to learn the fine art of nymphing.

  Ed Engle

  Art, Sea, Fishing

  Ed Engle (1991). “Fly Fishing the Tailwaters”, p.65, Stackpole Books

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