Fishing

(82 votes)   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.

Izaak Walton
1593-1683, British Writer

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(75 votes)   Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.

Edgar Watson Howe
1853-1937, American Journalist, Author

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(71 votes)   The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(69 votes)   Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(69 votes)   Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous -- almost of pedantic -- veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.

Jerome K. Jerome
1859-1927, British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright

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(65 votes)   All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.

Herb Shriner

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(65 votes)   Caution is a most valuable asset in fishing, especially if you are the fish.

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