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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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Book:Never Sniff A Gift Fish

Source: Never Sniff A Gift Fish

“The two best times to fish is when it's raining and when it ain't.”

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Author:Patrick F. McManus

“Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.”

Source: The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors

“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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Author:John Gierach

“Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in!”

Giving Enjoy Sin Fishes Thee Gentle Streams Dishes Trout Fly Fishing Gluttony Rascals Anglers

Author:John Wolcot

“Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.”

Men Sound Sea Creatures Eating Rivers Fishes Boat Gentle Lakes Fishing Wounded Tigers Buffalo Anglers

Author:Roderick Haig-Brown

“I went to see every angler on the bank to see how they were doing, to try to give them a few tips or whatever. But yeah, we had a lot of fun. It was definitely a good time and we're definitely going to do it again next year.”

Giving Trying Years Next Fun Yeah Good Times Next Year Try Again Anglers

Author:Tom Felton

“The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees the inside. The angler only is brought close, face to face with the flower and bird and insect life of the rich riverbanks, the only part of the landscape where the hand of man has never interfered.”

Source: Prose Idylls: New and Old: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

“A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the old angler's face to a fish.”

Faces Fishes Admirer Isaac Anglers

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching a shrieking fish.”

Water Fishes Delight Noise Catching Equanimity Philosophic Anglers Carp

Book:The Indicator

Source: The Indicator

“There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.”

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Author:Tom Felton

“As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.”

Men Artist Born Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Angling Anglers

Author:Izaak Walton

“Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect.”

Should Two Three Perfect Sea Rivers Casts Fishes Boat Sufficient Lakes Fishing Anglers

Author:Joe Brooks

“The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.”

Language Higher Sitting Rivers Patient Refuse Streams Strings Broads English Language Tipping Anglers Barges

Author:Cyril Connolly

“See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.”

Men Play Political Politics Lines Trout Anglers

Book:The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes

Source: The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes

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