Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.
Anonymous - Keyword(s): , Prayer , Religion

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
George Herbert - Keyword(s): , Risk

Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years.
Charles Haas - Keyword(s): Environment

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

You cannot catch trout with dry breeches.
Spanish Proverb - Keyword(s):

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.
P.J. O'Rourke - Keyword(s): , Food

All fishermen are liars; it's an occupational disease with them like housemaid's knee or editor's ulcers.
Beatrice Cook - Keyword(s):

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
John Buchan - Keyword(s):

When they go fishing, it is not really fish they are after. It is a philosophic meditation.
E.T. Brown - Keyword(s): , Meditation , Philosophy

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

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.
A.K. Best - Keyword(s):

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
Anonymous - Keyword(s):

Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.
Roderick Haig-Brown - Keyword(s):

Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.
Anonymous - Keyword(s): Exaggeration

Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.
Herbert Hoover - Keyword(s): Equality

Fish, to taste right, must swim three times - in water, in butter, and in wine.
Polish Proverb - Keyword(s): , Food

Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder: Don't any of these guys ever go fishing?
Dave Shiflett - Keyword(s): Baseball

A converted cannibal is one who, on Friday, eats only fishermen.
Emily Lotney - Keyword(s): , Food

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend.
Zenna Schaffer - Keyword(s): , Weekends

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Steven Wright - Keyword(s):

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
Steven Wright - Keyword(s):

A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work.
Anonymous - Keyword(s):

If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly.
Jack Ohman - Keyword(s):

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 - Keyword(s):

There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process.
Paul O'Neil - Keyword(s):

Good things come to those who bait.
Anonymous - Keyword(s):

Men and fish are alike. They both get into trouble when they open their mouths.
Anonymous - Keyword(s): , Men

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.
Anonymous - Keyword(s):

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
Dave Barry - Keyword(s):

I am not against golf, since I cannot but suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering trout...
Paul O'Neil - Keyword(s): , Golf , Sports

Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn.
Chuck Clark - Keyword(s): , Housework

There are two types of fisherman - those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish.
Anonymous - Keyword(s): , Sports

Fishing is the sport of drowning worms.
Anonymous - Keyword(s): , Sports

May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.
Irish Blessing - Keyword(s):

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.
Washington Irving - Keyword(s):

Even eminent chartered accountants are known, in their capacity as fishermen, blissfully to ignore differences between seven and ten inches, half a pound and two pounds, three fish and a dozen fish.
William Sherwood Fox - Keyword(s):

...of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy.
William Sherwood Fox - Keyword(s):

An angler is a man who spends rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won't let him do it at home.
Anonymous - Keyword(s):

Even if you've been fishing for three hours and haven't gotten anything except poison ivy and sunburn, you're still better off than the worm.
Anonymous - Keyword(s):

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 - Keyword(s):

The best way to a fisherman's heart is through his fly.
Anonymous - Keyword(s):

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.
Paul Schullery - Keyword(s):

All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish.
Harold F. Blaisdell - Keyword(s):

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
Babylonian Proverb - Keyword(s):

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Herbert Hoover - Keyword(s):

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 F. McManus - Keyword(s):

This planet is covered with sordid men who demand that he who spends time fishing shall show returns in fish.
Leonidas Hubbard - Keyword(s):

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.
Patrick F. McManus - Keyword(s):

I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent.
Nick Lyons - Keyword(s):

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.
Robert Altman - Keyword(s):

...trout that doesn't think two jumps and several runs ahead of the average fisherman is mighty apt to get fried.
Beatrice Cook - Keyword(s):

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls...
Jim Harrison - Keyword(s): , Sports , Tennis

My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it.
Koos Brandt - Keyword(s):