The gods do not deduct from a man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
The best time to go fishing is when you can get away.
All fishermen are liars; it's an occupational disease with them like housemaid's knee or editor's ulcers.
The two best times to fish is when it's rainin' and when it ain't.
A bad day of fishing is still better than a good day at the office.
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
Fishing is not an escape from life, but often a deeper immersion into it.
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.
I'm not against golf, since I cannot but suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering trout.
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.
If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.
Fishing is a discipline in the equality of men—for all men are equal before fish.