“Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.” MenEvilPleasureSeaRiversCaughtFishesBoatLakesFishingPlatoHookBait Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for the passing pleasure it brings me'. Something inside me clicked. I realised as I watched him fight for breath that his life was as important to him as mine is to me.” YearsImportantFightingPleasurePoorMinesYears AgoBreathsKillingFishesI RealizedPassingPassingsFishing Author:Paul McCartney
“The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached this stage and reviews the pleasure of life will be grateful and glad that he has been an angler, for he will look back on days radiant with happiness, peaks of enjoyment that are no less bright because they are lit in memory by the light of a setting sun.” LooksLongHas BeensLightMemoriesPleasureSunSeaStageRiversGratefulFishesGladSettingBoatSettingsEnjoymentLakesFishingReviewsBe GratefulLitRadiantPleasures Of LifeAnglers Author:Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
“Fishing, if I a fisher may protest, Of pleasures is the sweetest of sports the best, Of exercises the most excellent, Of recreations the most innocent. But now the sport is marred, and why you ask? Fishes decrease, and fishers multiply.” IfsMayAsksSportsPleasureSeaExerciseRiversFishesInnocentBoatExcellentLakesFishingProtestSweetestRecreationDecrease Author:Thomas Bastard
“...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.” BookReadingNextPleasureSeaRiversFishesBoatLakesFishingFavouritePersuadingPleasure Of Reading Book:Fishing Source: Fishing