Fishing Quotes - Page 10

• The worst part of losing good fish is that you cannot release them. They tailwalk across the back of your mind for days.

  Christopher Camuto

  Lakes, Sea, Rivers

  Christopher Camuto (2001). “A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge”, p.60, University of Georgia Press

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• Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.

  Saint Basil

  Swans, Deep Water, Feet

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.131, CUA Press

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• If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook.

  Lee Trevino

  Focus, Hook, Bass

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• The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of, as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no phones.

  Billy Collins

  Memories, Phones, Names

  2000 Taking off Emily Dickinson's Clothes: Selected Poems, 'Forgetfulness'.

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• A whole big, giant world full of men. Men with blue eyes. Brown eyes. Green eyes. And indescribable shades in between. Tall men. Short men. Skinny men. Built men. And all combinations thereof. Nice men (so I've heard, but never really seen). Mean men. Decent men, indecent. And who knows which is the best kind to have, to hold, to love? I'd say, with so many men in the world, it would pay to sample a few. Scratch that. More than a few. Lots and lots. And then a few more. And maybe, after years of research, you might find one worth not throwing back. But hey, the fun is in the fishing.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Fun, Nice, Eye

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• Thomas More: Will, I'd trust you with my life. But not your principles. You see, we speak of being anchored to our principles. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there's less wind, and the fishing's better. And "Look," we say, "look, I'm anchored! To my principles!

  Robert Bolt

  Anchors, Wind, Weather

  Robert Bolt (2013). “A Man For All Seasons”, p.43, A&C Black

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• Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.

  Desmond Tutu

  Stupid, Men, Cycling

  "11 Pieces Of Wisdom From Desmond Tutu To Inspire Change Makers In 2017" by Brian Rusch, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 31, 2016.

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• But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pride, Dancing, Titles

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• Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into a bottomless well, crossing your fingers and hoping when you pull it out on its flimsy fishing wire it hasn't been gnawed to bones by nameless beasts below.

  Isaac Marion

  Sleep, Mind, Wire

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• A man fishes for two reasons: he’s either sport fishing or fishing to eat, which means he’s either going to try to catch the biggest fish he can, take a picture of it, admire it with his buddies and toss it back to sea, or he’s going to take that fish on home, scale it, fillet it, toss it in some cornmeal, fry it up, and put it on his plate. This, I think, is a great analogy for how men seek out women.

  Steve Harvey

  Sports, Home, Mean

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• ...Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.

  Louise Erdrich

  Weed, Rocks, Grandpa

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.17, Odyssey Editions

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• Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish and said: "Wouldn't you like to have that?" Why not use the same common sense when fishing for people?

  Dale Carnegie

  Thinking, People, Common Sense

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.36, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

  Mark Twain

  School, Holiday, Punishment

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4550, Delphi Classics

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• It's really not as bad as it sounds. I was attacked by a shark once, back when I was alive. Well, not so much a shark as a rather large fish. And not so much attacked as looked at menacingly. But it had murder in its eyes, that fish. I knew, in that instant, if our roles had been reversed and the fish had been holding the fishing pole and I had been the one to be caught, it wouldn't hesitate a moment before eating me. So I cooked it and ate before it had a chance to turn the tables.

  Derek Landy

  Eye, Sharks, Sound

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• Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.

  Hermann Hesse

  Time, Ocean, Past

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.81, Om Books International

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• If you don't want people to look at you, Park had thought at the time, don't wear fishing lures in your hair. Her jewelry box must look like a junk drawer.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Hair, People, Junk

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.30, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Baseball, Father, Men

  The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

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• Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat drinking beer every weekend.

  Alex Blackwell

  Drinking, Beer, Weekend

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• If you'd asked me at 30 where I'd be during the Masters when I was 46, I'd have pictured myself on a boat fishing, smoking a cigar, drinking a mint julep and watching it on television.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Drinking, Golf, Smoking

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• My golf game's gone off so much that when I went fishing a couple of weeks ago my first cast missed the lake.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Couple, Golf, Games

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• By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Goodbye, Winning

  "Tao Te Ching". Book by Laozi, Ch. 48, as translated by Raymond B. Blakney (1955), c. 6th - 5th century BC.

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• I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.

  Will Durst

  Fun, Hate, Lakes

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• A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Dream, Dancing, Lines

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• Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Born, Angling

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

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• I've got 21 years of experience now fishing professionally, and over that time I've learned a lot about how the bass react. A lot of people think there's a lot of luck in fishing, and there really isn't.

  Kevin VanDam

  Thinking, Years, People

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