Quotes about Fishing

Then, while the old man was clearing the lines and preparing the harpoon, the male fish jumped high into the air beside the boat to see where the female was and then went down deep, his lavender wings, that were his pectoral fins, spread wide and all his wide lavender stripes showing. He was beautiful, the old man remembered, and he had stayed.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

A politician, a man engaged in party contests, must be an opportunist. Let us give up saying that word as if it contained a slur. If you want to win in party action, I take it for granted that you want to lure the majority to your side. I never heard of any man in his senses who was fishing for a minority.

I am not a fisherman, but the other day I read some simple rules for fishing. One was this: Be sure your face is toward the light! The skillful fisherman will always see that the sun shines upon his face and that his shadow falls behind him. He who turns his back to the sun and lets his shadow darken the stream has said good-bye to all the trout. That

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.