Fishing Quotes

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

Henry David Thoreau, ?

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

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

Harry S Truman

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

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

Herbert Clark Hoove

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

Steven Wright

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

Jimmy Cannon