Fishing Quotations that Make You Go Hmmm

By: Rod Tilton..

Go fishing and you will undoubtedly find the serenity of the lazy day to be refreshing. It can be an oasis from the hectic pace of regular life and more than a few people have noted as such. Here is what they had to say from the humorous to the sublime.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. - Ernest Hemingway

It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. - John Steinbeck

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

A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work.

The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner. - Arnold Gingrich

The man who coined the phrase Money can't buy happiness, never bought himself a good fly rod! - Reg Baird

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

Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy. - Jimmy Carter

Eventually all things merge into one and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. - Norman Maclean

May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.

All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight. - John Steinbeck

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

When the beginner can cast his fly into his hat, eight times out of ten, at forty feet, he is a fly fisher; and so far as casting is concerned, a good one. - James A. Henshall

Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman. - Herbert Hoover

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. - Doug Larson