There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. Votes: 4
Steven WrightMany men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. Votes: 4
Henry David ThoreauFishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection. Votes: 3
Arthur RansomeFishing: I don't really like it. I don't really like the expression on the fish's face. Votes: 3
Karl PilkingtonFishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish. Votes: 3
Herbert HooverFishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed Votes: 3
John D. VoelkerFishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die. Votes: 3
Zicheng HongFishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick. Votes: 3
Mariano RiveraThe sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. Votes: 2
Jacques Yves CousteauSustainable fishing is a fraud. It's a marketing term that really means 'business as usual.' Votes: 2
Paul WatsonI do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing. Votes: 2
Norman SchwarzkopfAngling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned. Votes: 2
Izaak WaltonBragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. Votes: 2
Ann LandersI like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different. Votes: 2
Rafael NadalLast year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish. Votes: 2
Steven WrightThere's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot Votes: 1
Stephen WrightAfter that first trout I was alone in there. But I didn't know it until later Votes: 1
Richard BrautiganWhen I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing. Votes: 1
Max HastingsFish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination. Votes: 0
Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron DewarWork: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceI'm an outdoors girl - I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers, hunting. Votes: 0
Miranda LambertStreet Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it... Votes: 0
Thomas LeuthardThere is time to go long, time to go short and time to go fishing. Votes: 0
Jesse Lauriston LivermoreWhoever came up with ice fishing must have had the worst marriage on the planet. Votes: 0
Jeff CesarioGood fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth. Votes: 0
Arthur RansomeI imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception. Votes: 0
G. E. M. SkuesThe end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century. Votes: 0
Sylvia EarleI ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest. Votes: 0
DeForest KelleyThe fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals. Votes: 0
Tim FerrissDon't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods. Votes: 0
Wendell BerryFly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness. Votes: 0
John D. VoelkerI call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish. Votes: 0
R. Buckminster FullerA lot of people think there's a lot of luck in fishing, and there really isn't. Votes: 0
Kevin VanDamWhen I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me. Votes: 0
Norman MacCaigSaltwater fishing is only for the strong man with a hard stomach. It's like sex after lunch. Votes: 0
Charles RitzHe liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation. Votes: 0
Leo TolstoyYou can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered. Votes: 0
Thomas McGuaneFish banks are areas we set aside without fishing, reserves where we allow marine life to come back. Votes: 0
Enric SalaIt is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. Votes: 0
Stephen LeacockTo paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing. Votes: 0
John D. VoelkerI'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends. Votes: 0
Scotty McCreerySometimes people in search of a better fishing hole can't see the body of water in front of them. Votes: 0
Tony ToddThere comes a time in every man's life when he is either going to go fishing or do something worse. Votes: 0
Havilah BabcockIf you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish. Votes: 0
Alex Faickney OsbornGod buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing." Votes: 0
Corrie Ten BoomWe'd like to make it [bucky fiber] in a continuous fiber, roll it on a drum, and go fishing with it. Votes: 0
Richard SmalleyYoochun makes great songs..so I want to go fishing w/ him. That way I can be closer to him as well. Votes: 0
JunsuI object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen. Votes: -1
Ted WilliamsI don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now. Votes: -1
Paul WatsonIf 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. Votes: 3 Lee Trevino
I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it. Votes: 1 Jack Nicklaus
The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, long lines with thousands of lethal hooks and bottom trawls are ruining ocean ecosystems by killing non-seafood species, including sea turtles and marine mammals. Votes: 4 Ted Danson
I do fish, and as a matter of fact, I used to do a lot of deep sea fishing, but as far as going into the water, I don't go out deep into the water. Votes: 3 Ving Rhames
From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical. Votes: 1 Rex Hunt
Mobile is a seaport town, and we ate a lot of seafood. We'd go fishing, we'd catch our fish and we'd eat our fish. It was a ritual on Saturday morning for all my family - my grandfather, my brothers, my uncles, my father - to go fishing, and then the ladies of the family would clean the fish and fry them up. Votes: 1 Billy Williams
I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends. Votes: 1 Scotty McCreery
Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then. Votes: 1 Garrison Keillor
I was a kid that grew up in the South and was always outdoors fishing and hunting and, you know, swimming in the pool during the summer. Votes: 4 Tye Sheridan
I love talk and I love fishing. I'm having a ball. Votes: 1 Martin Milner
Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature. Votes: 1 Robert Redford
The two biggest things that translate from the pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you're on the mound, you have to take the game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I'm in the woods or on the water as well. Votes: 1 Jon Lester
Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it. Votes: 1 Joseph Monninger
I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind. Votes: 1 Tiger Woods
I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind. Votes: 2 Tiger Woods
I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion. Votes: 1 Larry Norman
Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate. Votes: 4 Norman Mailer
Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive. Votes: 3 Chris Evans
The fishing is a great relief for me. When I'm out there's no cell phone ringing. I'm out there fishing with bears. I'm in the middle of God's country catching tons of fish. I just absolutely love it. Votes: 1 Rick Barry
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. Votes: 1 Lee Trevino
I've managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says, 'Man cannot have too many shotguns and fishing poles.' Votes: 1 Norman Schwarzkopf
I'll paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad. Votes: 1 Behati Prinsloo
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. Votes: 3 Saint Basil
If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices. Votes: 3 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I can go without make-up and go fishing with my dad; other times, I buy pink shoes and shop for dresses. Votes: 1 Jordan Pruitt
I'll paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad. Votes: 1 Behati Prinsloo
I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends. Votes: 1 Scotty McCreery
Growing up, you always want to hang with your dad - go fishing or whatever. But my dad was always working, so we never really had time for that. I think I kind of learned to accept it. Votes: 1 Victor Oladipo
There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm. Votes: 4 Patrick F. McManus
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. Votes: 3 William G. Tapply
My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothers. There, I developed a deep appreciation for protecting land and waterways. There, I learned outdoorsmanship. Votes: 2 Louis Bacon
Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick. Votes: 1 Mariano Rivera
I get out in my boat and go fishing inshore and offshore. Votes: 1 Rickie Fowler
I like Alaska for the salmon fishing - it's fantastic there. I usually stay in a log cabin with no one around for miles. I like to go with friends, but I'm also happy to be on my own with nature. Votes: 3 Vinnie Jones
I was a kid that grew up in the South and was always outdoors fishing and hunting and, you know, swimming in the pool during the summer. Votes: 1 Tye Sheridan
I don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now. Votes: 2 Paul Watson