Catch fish with one hand at the same time. — Thai Proverbs
The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad. — A. Best
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. — Herbert Hoover
We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children. — Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered. — Orlando Aloysius Battista
Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts. — Charles W. Waterman
Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once. — Lee Wulff
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. — Dave Barry
Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time. — Zane Grey
If you cannot catch a fish, do not blame the sea — Greek Proverbs
If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago. — Zane Grey
You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface. — Andy Gilbert
Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up. — Arnold Gingrich
If you want to catch fish, don’t throw your net into the bathtub. — Reinhard Bonnke
Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. — Paul Schullery
Short Catching Fish Quotes
Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish. — Ovid
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. — Henry David Thoreau
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish. — Ovid
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. — Steven Wright
Without effort, you won’t even pull a fish out of a pond. — Russian Proverbs
Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living. — Jim Harrison
Without hard work, you won't even catch a fish from the pond. — Russian Proverbs
When the bait’s worth more than the fish, it’s time to stop fishing. — American Proverbs
There is one fish in the pond, and ten anglers on the bank. — Vietnamese Proverbs
The best fish hook cannot catch limp cheese — Greek Proverbs
Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.
Catching The Big Fish Quotes
Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful. — David Lynch
The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you? — Lee Wulff
They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up. — Daniel Wallace
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw of the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in you sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while. — Terry Bradshaw
How did the dolphins and whales get such big brains? They obviously don't need such big brains to catch fish. — Owsley Stanley
A couple of months ago I went fishing with a buddy of mine, we pulled his boat into the dock, I lifted up this big 'ol stringer of bass and this idiot on the dock goes, Hey, y'all catch all them fish? Nope - Talked 'em into giving up. Here's your sign. — Bill Engvall
Not Catching Fish Quotes
Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching fish is actually the point. — John Gierach
Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. — Ann Landers
Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch the eye of adoption committees but dull when read by students. — James W. Loewen
Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?
The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly. — Bjorn Lomborg
Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley. — Ann Landers
Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without the ability to catch fish to feed your family. — Nelson Mandela
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climd a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Golf is like hunting and fishing. What counts is the companionship and fellowship of friends, not what you catch or shoot. — George Archer
It's not the fish you catch, it's the peace of mind you take home at the end of the day. — Neil Gaiman
The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Finding Fish Quotes
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God. — Kabir
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea. — E. E. cummings
Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale. — William Carlos Williams
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned, and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.
Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean — Ted Dekker
Give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he will eat for a life time.
Wherever we go in the world we find other men speaking the same language, planning the same plans, dreaming the same dreams. And one of the big four - brownie, or brookie, cutthroat or rainbow - is the cause of it all — Roderick Haig-Brown
The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God. — Eric Butterworth
Aquatic animals suffer from the disadvantage that they cannot scream when in pain, so we find it hard to gauge the degree of their agony. If fish could scream, angling purely for sport would be outlawed without delay. — Desmond Morris
Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues. — Muddy Waters
Fishing Quotes
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. — Karl Marx
I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different. — Lil Wayne
His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular. — Idi Amin
Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein
Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet. — Unknown Author
The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish. — Otto von Bismarck
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.
The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after. — Henry David Thoreau
Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish. — Jose Rizal
We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out. — Thomas Mcguane
In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me. — Nizar Qabbani
Fish In The Sea Quotes
The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea. — Empedocles
No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity, no member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me. Its why I don't eat red meat or white fish, don't give me no blue cheese. Were all members of the animal kingdom, leave your brothers and sisters in the sea. — Prince
There are plenty of fish in the sea, if I run out of women. — Joey Comeau
A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence. — Vladimir Nabokov
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark. — Paul Watson
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. — William Shakespeare
I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea. — Nicholas Sparks
They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret. — Jonathan Swift
Great Fishing Quotes
The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be. — John Gierach
They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore. — John Gierach
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters. — Norman Maclean
There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm. — Patrick F. McManus
The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, humankind to himself. — Indian Proverbs
He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One', while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish proclaim His Mercy, reciting: 'O Gracious One, O Compassionate One, O Generous One — Said Nursi
A girl should be lika a butterfly, pretty to see and hard to catch
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. — Roderick Haig-Brown
Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect — Norman Maclean
If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong. — John Gierach
Men are like fish; the great ones devour the small. — Hungarian Proverbs
Hunting And Fishing Quotes
'The best thing about hunting and fishing,' the Old Man said, 'is that you don't have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can go to bed every night thinking about how much fun you had twenty years ago, and it all comes back clear as moonlight.' — Robert Ruark
When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God. — Fred Bear
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. — Aldo Leopold
Some people cannot stand that you're moving on with your life and so they will try to drag your past to catch up with you. Do not help them by acknowledging their behavior. Keep Moving Forward.
Go afield with a good attitude, with respect for the wildlife you hunt and for the forest and fields in which you walk. Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make you a better person. — Fred Bear
My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didnt romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man. — Steve Albini
My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothers. There, I developed a deep appreciation for protecting land and waterways. There, I learned outdoorsmanship. — Louis Bacon
I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington. — Douglass North
It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain constant alertness, and develops a certain ruggedness of character....Moreover, it allies us to the pioneer past. In a deep sense, this great land of ours was won for us by hunters. — Archibald Rutledge
Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make your a better person. — Fred Bear
Fishes Quotes
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he doesn't like sushi, then you also have to teach him to cook. — Auren Hoffman
Is slavery - owner, victim, profit, and domination - exclusive to the human race? Have blacks, Jews, women and children been the only victims of this atrocity? Have not cows been enslaved? What about pigs, chickens, turkeys, fish, sheep? If they’re not enslaved, then what are they? Free? — Gary Yourofsky
The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering. — Jim Harrison
The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit...they are just a heap of loose sand...Other men are the carving knife and serving dish; we are the fish and the meat. — Sun Yat-sen
In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle. — Sri Yukteswar Giri
We've got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays and we hate him! — Hank Williams, Jr.
If it smells like fish its a dish. If it smells like cologne leave it alone. — Andrew Dice Clay
Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise. — Tommy Douglas
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. — George Carlin
Fresh Fish Quotes
Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt. — Cat Cora
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out. — Louis C. K.
So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air. — Rex Hunt
Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning — Nellie Bly
I eat nothing that's processed or refined - no high-fructose corn syrup, no sugar, no trans-fats. I eat a lot of fish and monounsaturated fats from olives, olive oil and nuts. A lot of organic, fresh fruits and vegetables. No bread. No gluten. No wheat. No rice. — Dean Karnazes
A gluten-free diet still allows you access to almost every fruit and vegetable, a variety of grains and legumes, your pick of dairy products, fresh meats and fish and a whole slew of special gluten-free delights to satisfy your pretzel-bagel-muffin-doughnut craving. — Daphne Oz
The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted air. — Theodore Gordon
Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course it's for sale, we're not giving it away. Of course it's here, otherwise the sign would be someplace else. The final sign: FISH. — Peggy Noonan
I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love. — Todd English
Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat. — Osbert Sitwell
Big Fish Quotes
I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don't have any pets now. — Tom Felton
Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed. — John Gierach
I'm into eating salads and fish. I've always been a big fish eater. I like fruit. I have friends that you have to force-feed them the good stuff. I'm lucky I actually like it. Brussel sprouts and all that. — Elisha
I'm into eating salads and fish. I've always been a big fish eater. I like fruit. I have friends that you have to force-feed them the good stuff. I'm lucky I actually like it. Brussel sprouts and all that. — Elisha Cuthbert
Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he's also funny as hell, and he's so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, he's so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way. — Tom Hiddleston
I'm a big fish eater. Salmon - I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all that. I'm not as big of a fan, but she likes it so we eat it a lot. So I'm beginning to like it more. I don't like the raw sushi. I liked the cooked crab and lobster and everything. — Elle Fanning
I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now. — Shania Twain
In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it's the fast fish which eats the slow fish. — Klaus Schwab
Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it's boring. But if you site there all day, and you catch one mega fish, you come back with stories that you caught a fish this big (indicates a big fish), intead of this size (indicating a small fish) — Eddie Irvine
Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power. — Baruch Spinoza
The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish we catch. — Elliot W. Eisner
If you give a man a fish, he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish, you do him a good turn. — Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
Peacock bass like to hide at ambush points, away from the strong canal currents. If you fish early and know those peacock hangouts, you will have little or no trouble catching peacocks on lures and live bait. — Mark Hall
A language like Ruby is a toolbox with some really neat little tools that do their job really nicely. JavaScript is a leather sheath with a really really sharp knife inside. That knife can cut anything, and with it you can do anything. You can kill a bear. You can catch fish. You can whittle a piece of wood into a pony. It's even a toothpick. — Nick Morgan
In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch. — Louis Nizer
You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something. — Mitch Hedberg
We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish. — Jennifer Granholm
Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout. — Paul Schullery
Catching fish is not a mental game between fish and angler. A 'smart' trout is only smarter than other trout, not smarter than a fisherman. An angler must take the puzzle of the day's conditions, and matching those conditions and his knowledge of the fish come up with a good catch. He competes with a concept, not with a fish's brain. — Lee Wulff
The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp and quick. That has a lot to do with helping a songwriter be more reflective of reality, instead of being in an area where you have to process things. It's the difference between processing fish and catching it in a boat. — Chuck D
New York is where you go to catch a big fish. — Jessica Cutler
I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the experience of spending six hours in the arms of the ocean, never thinking of a single thing except chasing fish. — Jimmy Buffett
Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss. — Matt Chandler
Street Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it. — Thomas Leuthard
The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches. — Mary Astor
I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild music, and I'm gonna dive in and find as many fish as I can and catch them all. I love music. — Phil Anselmo
If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel. — Ann Landers
To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing. — Chinese Proverbs
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