Angling Quotes
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There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
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To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of sun on blue water. It brings meekness and inspiration from the decency of nature, charity toward tackle-makers, patience toward fish, a mockery of profits and egos, a quieting of hate, a rejoicing that you do not have to decide a darned thing until next week. And it is discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.
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I would love to get an international version of Riding Shotgun going, because that's what I've been angling at ever since I wanted to do a travel show in the first place.
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It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.
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My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.
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Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human.
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Aging is for people who don't know any better.
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Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.
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If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
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I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.
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There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.
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We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
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I`ve not really been angling to be a comedian. I knew comics and I loved them and I loved being funny, but I didn't understand the whole concept of becoming one. My first couple of times on stage, I was like, "This is what I'm doing for sure." I was so excited.
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Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us.
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Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practise toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost.
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There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.
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Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has ever improved on that statement.
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Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
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Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
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What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.
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A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.
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I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.
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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
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A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."
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God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
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Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
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Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
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