Fishing Quotes - Page 19

• Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Plato, Men, Sea

  "De Senectute", XIII. 44, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 600-02,

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• Never open a can of worms unless you plan to go fishing.

  John C. Maxwell

  Advice, Cans Of Worms, Plans

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• Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers.

  Bob Dylan

  Flower, Fighting, Sea

  'Desolation Row' (1965 song)

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• Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for the passing pleasure it brings me'. Something inside me clicked. I realised as I watched him fight for breath that his life was as important to him as mine is to me.

  Paul McCartney

  Fighting, Years, Important

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.

  Tim Ferriss

  Goal, Competition, Bigger

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• Fishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and there's nothing quite like the thrill of the catch.

  Bob Gibson

  Power, Relax, Thrill

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• We see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting, fishing, or merely gleaning. By their economic activities they do not increase, but rather decrease, the amount of wealth in the world. The second kind of societies, producing societies, live by agricultural and pastoral activities. By these activities they seek to increase the amount of wealth in the world.

  Carroll Quigley

  Hunting, Two, Different

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind veils of corporate secrecy.

  Achim Steiner

  Veils, Secrecy, Illegal

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• As we've seen the rise of cultural, environmental and educational tourism in adventure travel, we've also seen the rise of female participation. Part of that is due to changes in women's attitudes about their own abilities. As more women participate in such things as fly-fishing, whitewater kayaking and bicycling, we're also seeing concurrent growth in those areas in adventure travel.

  Christopher Doyle

  Attitude, Educational, Adventure

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• We know of fishing vessels that carry up to twelve different flags on board, and they re-flag their ship at sea,.

  Claude Martin

  Sea, Twelve, Different

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• Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch the eye of adoption committees but dull when read by students.

  James W. Loewen

  Eye, Adoption, Marketing

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.347, The New Press

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• Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.

  Ed Zern

  Honest, Fisherman, Born

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• Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades — I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Lying, Stupidity, Forever

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• It's like fishing -- you got to get that first one in the boat. Once you get that first one, the skunk is off the boat and everything's cool from then on. You've got to get that first one. Once he gets the first one, I know he'll be fine.

  Dusty Baker

  Firsts, Boat, Fine

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• When I get up at five in the morning to go fishing, I wake my wife up and ask, 'What'll it be dear, sex or fishing?' And she says, “Don't forget your waders.'

  Robert Ruark

  Morning, Sex, Wife

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• Street Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it.

  Thomas Leuthard

  Photography, Eating, Catching

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• It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

  George Eliot

  Men, Quality, Trout

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.364, Wordsworth Editions

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• The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Food, Cooking, World

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek Cookery”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

  Mark Twain

  Reason, Certain, Streams

  Mark Twain (2006). “The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Stories”, p.23, Penguin

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• The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

  Virginia Woolf

  Race, Differences, Profound

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3201, Delphi Classics

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• fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

  Virginia Woolf

  Honesty, Morality, Teach

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3200, Delphi Classics

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• There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.

  Faith Baldwin

  Stupidity, Bait, Matter

  Faith Baldwin (1934). “Honor bound”

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• And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

  Izaak Walton

  Winter, Fly Fishing

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) 'Epistle to the Reader'

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• [T]is not all fishing to fish.

  Izaak Walton

  Fishes

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• ... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing.

  Margaret Mead

  Mirrors, Imagination, Cynical

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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