Fishing Quotes

If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.

Harry S Truman

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

Samuel Johnson

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

Don Marquis

Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau, ?

Time is but the stream I go a - Fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.

Jimmy Cannon

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

Herbert Clark Hoove