Be patient and calm – for no one can catch fish in anger.
Herbert Hoover

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

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David Thoreau

The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so that I could afford to hunt and fish.
Sam Snead

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently.
Chinese Proverb

Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.
Bible quotes

Caution is a most valuable asset in fishing, especially if you are the fish.

Angling is extremely time consuming. That’s sort of the whole point.
Thomas McGuane

If I’m not going to catch anything, then I ‘d rather not catch anything on flies.
Bob Lawless

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

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

Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher’s salary”
Patrick McManus

The gods do not deduct from man’s alloted span the hours spent fishing.

The fish and I were both stunned and disbelieving to find ourselves connected by a line.
William Humphrey

I’ve gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water.
William Tapply

If fishing is interfering with your business, give up your business.
Alfred W. Miller

Marta says the interesting thing about fly-fishing is that it’s two lives connected by a thin strand. Come on, Marta. Grow up.
Jack Handy

Each person has his own safe place-running, painting, swimming, fishing, weaving, gardening. The activity itself is less important than the act of drawing on your own resources.
Barbara Gordon

A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other.
Samuel Johnson

It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.
W.C. Prime

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.
Jimmy Cannon

The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them.
John Gierach

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of the government.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Even if you’ve been fishing for 3 hours and haven’t gotten anything except poison ivy and sunburn, you’re still better off than the worm.

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

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
Charles M. de Talleyrand

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
Tom Brokaw

Sitting still and wishing Made no person great; The good Lord sends the fishing, but you must dig the bait.

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
Dave Barry

Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.
Edgar Watson Howe

In cross-examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
Louis Nizer

The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I’d rather go fishing for three years.
Whitey Herzog

Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin.
John Paul Stevens

There will be days when the fishing is better than one’s most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.
Roderick Haig-Brown

Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can?
Lee Wulff

We got no troubles, Life is the bubbles, Under the sea…

In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.
Grover Cleveland

There will be days when the fishing is better than one’s most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.
Roderick Haig-Brown