There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.
It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.
All fishermen are liars; it's an occupational disease with them like housemaid's knee or editor's ulcers.
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
Fishing is a discipline in the equality of men--for all men are equal before fish.
Fishing is not an escape from life, but often a deeper immersion into it.
The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.
When all the routine bites the dust, and life's a school of war, the trout is just a coloured way of saying 'Have a cigar.'
A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.
I'm not against extracting a modest living from nature. But there's nothing modest about industrial fishing.
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work.
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 fish is when the fish are biting.
The fishing rod is a stick with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
The gods do not deduct from a man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.