YakAttack
08-18-2006, 05:10 PM
Anyone know of any good fishing quotes? I dug these up a few weeks ago when I was jonesing for my Hatteras trip and couldn't think of anyting else:
Marriage is like deep-sea fishing. You never know what you've got until you get it in the boat.
-- Dick Bothwell
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
-- Chinese Proverb
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.
-- Lao-Tzu
I really fished mainly because I wanted to be alone on the middle of a lake.
-- Susan A. Toth
If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is the high church.
-- Tom Brokaw
It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and losses has it coming.
-- John Steinbeck
Man can learn a lot from fishing -- when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.
-- Orlando A. Battista
Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Patience is what you require when the fish are not hungry.
-- Unknown
There ain't but one time to go fishin', and that's whenever you can.
-- Diron Talbert
The fish and I were both stunned to find ourselves connected by a line.
-- William Humphrey
Marriage is like deep-sea fishing. You never know what you've got until you get it in the boat.
-- Dick Bothwell
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
-- Chinese Proverb
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.
-- Lao-Tzu
I really fished mainly because I wanted to be alone on the middle of a lake.
-- Susan A. Toth
If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is the high church.
-- Tom Brokaw
It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and losses has it coming.
-- John Steinbeck
Man can learn a lot from fishing -- when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.
-- Orlando A. Battista
Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Patience is what you require when the fish are not hungry.
-- Unknown
There ain't but one time to go fishin', and that's whenever you can.
-- Diron Talbert
The fish and I were both stunned to find ourselves connected by a line.
-- William Humphrey