Fishing Quotes

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

Samuel Johnson

Fishing gives you a sense of where you fit in the sceme of things - Your place in the universe... I, mean, here I am, one small guy with a fishing pole on this vast beach and out there in the blue expanse of ocean are these hundreds of millions of fish... laughing at me.

Unknown

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

Henry David Thoreau, ?

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

Jimmy Cannon

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

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

Harry S Truman

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

Don Marquis