Top 100 A Fisherman Quotes
#1. I am a woman. I am a fisherman. As I have said, I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl.
Linda Greenlaw
#2. I am a fisherman, a hunter, and a lover. A lover of men, not animals. And by men I mean women.
Jarod Kintz
#3. Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.
Ernest Hemingway,
#4. I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're a musician, you play music.
Randy Bachman
#5. Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a fisherman is forced to do to make a living; how could such an activity bring me - a woman no less - pleasure?
Rosemary Mahoney
#6. And there it is. The threat I have lived with my entire life. If I am not good enough, kind enough, thoughtful enough, obedient enough, I will be cast from my home like a stunted fish from a fisherman's net.
Robin LaFevers
#7. I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.
Ernest Hemingway,
#8. Fishes and tales And a fisherman's daughter Walks in the rain, She walks to the water To the sea.
Daniel Lanois
#9. Although I have never pretended to be a great fisherman, it was always important to me that I was a fisherman and looked like one, especially when fishing with my brother.
Norman Maclean
#10. I have heard of a minister, who had been a fisherman, being settled in Bridgewater for as long a time as he could tell a cod froma haddock. Generous as it seems, this condition would empty most country pulpits forthwith, for it is long since the fishers of men were fishermen.
Henry David Thoreau
#11. I have never heard a fisherman say that he loves the sea.
Georges Perros
#12. In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
Louis Nizer
#13. However far I gaze Neither cherry blossoms nor Crimson leaves are in sight. Only a fisherman's hut on the shore In the autumnal evening.
Fujiwara No Teika
#14. At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach,
A fisherman stood aghast,
To see the form of a maiden fair,
Lashed close to a drifting mast.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#15. When I was younger I did things with a camera I would not do by myself. I went down to the docks in San Francisco and asked a fisherman if he would take me out on his boat. I would never do that without a camera.
Annie Leibovitz
#17. As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.
Jonathan Winters
#18. I'm thinking about becoming a farmer and a fisherman - a hunter of swimming plants.
Jarod Kintz
#19. All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.
Herb Shriner
#20. Using a fisherman's net with large holes will only catch big fish; letting the smaller ones escape unharmed. It is a lot like life: focusing only on one golden opportunity lets the smaller ones slip away unnoticed. However, starting small will catch larger opportunities over time.
Adam Santo
#21. On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Czeslaw Milosz
#22. Just as a fisherman must watch the ebb and flow of the tides, an investor and businessperson must be keenly aware of the subtle shifts in cash flow.
Robert Kiyosaki
#23. I have already been loved," said Edward. "I have been loved by a girl named Abilene. I have been loved by a fisherman and his wife and a hobo and his dog. I have been loved by a boy who played the harmonica and by a girl who died. Don't talk to me about love," he said. "I have known love.
Kate DiCamillo
#24. It does not matter whether you paint, sculpt, or make shoes, whether you are a gardener, a farmer, a fisherman, a carpenter-it does not matter. What matters is, are you putting your very soul into what you are creating? Then your creative products have something of the quality of divine.
Rajneesh
#25. Retire to what? I'm a golfer and a fisherman. I've got no place to retire to.
Julius Boros
#26. It's this time of year when Kit mist rise in the dark, as if we're a farmer or a fisherman, someone whose livelihood depends on beating the dawn, convincing himself that what looks like night is actually morning.
Julia Glass
#27. Where are the fish, though?"
"In the sea they say, in the boats we pray," said Dan, quoting a fisherman's proverb.
Rudyard Kipling
#28. I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and so I told stories about things that I knew about.
John D. Voelker
#29. You know, I met a wise man centuries ago in China who said to me, 'He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master. (Acheron)
Confucius? (Talon)
No, Minh-Quan. He was a fisherman who used to sell what I'm told was the best zong zi ever made. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#30. but he had seen lots of women behave this way around Willem. They all had. Their friend Lionel used to say that Willem must have been a fisherman in a past life, because he couldn't help but attract pussy.
Hanya Yanagihara
#31. Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts.
Charles W. Waterman
#32. Studying texts and stiff meditation can make you lose your Original Mind.
A solitary tune by a fisherman, though, can be an invaluable treasure.
Dusk rain on the river, the moon peeking in and out of the clouds;
Elegant beyond words, he chants his songs night after night.
Ikkyu
#33. Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.
Dalai Lama XIV
#35. Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#36. You all know we are only passing by. We only walk over these stones a few times, our boats float a little while and then they have to sink. The water is a dark flower and a fisherman is a bee in the heart of her.
Annie Proulx
#37. My brother William is a fisherman, and he tells me that when he is in the middle of a fogbound
sea the water is a color for which there is no name.
Patricia MacLachlan
#38. I'm more of a fisherman as opposed to a scientist perhaps and chasing the whale. But I've had some success.
Matt Walsh
#39. Wise man is a lake full with fishes; clever man is a fisherman who often visits this lake!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#40. Fisherman deceives the fish with bait; this action makes the fisherman dishonest! For a fisherman to be honest, he must not put any bait to his fishhook! He who dares to be ideally honest, let him know how hard it is to be such an honest!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#41. Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off.
Ed Zern
#42. A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.
Baden Powell De Aquino
#43. Just as a fisherman cannot catch fish unless his line is in the water, a wildlife photographer cannot shoot great wildlife images unless he or she is out there with camera in hand and the knowledge of what to do then the 'magnificent moment' occurs.
George H. Harrison
#44. Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.
Ivan Turgenev
#45. A fisherman is always hopeful
nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.
Roderick Haig-Brown
#46. A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.
Martial
#47. I'm not a golf player. I think golf and fishing are the same, but at the end of the day, you can't fry up and golf ball and dip it in tartar sauce. So I'm a fisherman.
Daymond John
#48. Death is like a fisherman who has caught a fish in his net and leaves it for a time in the water: the fish still swims about, but the net surrounds it, and the fisherman will take it when he wishes.
Ivan Turgenev
#49. I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination
Jerome K. Jerome
#50. When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer.
Gene Hill
#51. Words had failed us that night, and I'd welcomed the silence. Words had escaped me the next morning as well but in a different way, when I came to realize that I was married to a fisherman for the rest of my days."--Abigail Whimble, Return to the Outer Banks House
Diann Ducharme
#52. Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries and those with calloused hands.
Chila Woychik
#53. If a fish feels sad when a fisherman's boat is sinking, and that fish owns a priceless treasure: The compassion! Have compassion, even for your enemies!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?
Ernest Hemingway,
#55. Simon, the fisherman, before his meeting with Christ, however thoroughly he might have searched within himself, could not possibly have found a trace of Peter.
Sherry Weddell
#56. 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
#57. Fisherman looks for the fish in the middle of a mysterious misty lake; mankind looks for the meaning of life in the middle of a mysterious cold space!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#58. The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream; And what is it all, when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.
Alice Cary
#59. 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
#60. The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.
A. Best
#61. Poor-country surf communities can be complex and, to some extent, leveling. The fisherman's kid is competing head to head with the plutocrat's gilded son. Your father can't buy you a good frontside hack.
William Finnegan
#62. "Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.
Marshall McLuhan
#63. Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a worm-fisherman in half, each half will grow into a complete fisherman. For which we should all be eternally grateful.
Ed Zern
#64. The sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water
Virginia Woolf
#65. The Thieves of Manhattan is a sly and cutting riff on the book-publishing world that is quite funny unless you happen to be an author, in which case the novel will make you consider a more sensible profession-like being a rodeo clown, for example, or a crab-fisherman in the Bering Sea.
Carl Hiaasen
#66. Bears are extremely human, even down to their footprints. But I am also a fly fisherman, so I have fished beside brown bears in Alaska and was once charged by a black bear. I love bears.
Joseph Monninger
#67. Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.
Georges Danton
#68. I'd like to own my own garage and my own fishery. I'd also like to be a professional fisherman. But I'll take whatever happens.
Tom Felton
#69. One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all times for a celebration.
Francis Picabia
#70. A beggar who goes fishing may use a worm which has feasted on a king as his bait. And the fisherman may eat the fish caught with that bait. What does this tells us? Well, it tells us that a king may progress through the guts of a pauper.
John Marsden
#71. When we see a lonely fisherman, we ask where the boat is; when we see a lonely boat, we ask where the fisherman is! We love to see the good friends always together!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#72. The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust, something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens.
Pietro Metastasio
#73. We saved the lives of a whole family that night. Children, parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, all sailed to safety in Sweden inside a little fisherman's boat."
Johannes aka 'BB'
The Informer by Steen Langstrup
Steen Langstrup
#74. Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.
Libba Bray
#76. 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.
Jerome K. Jerome
#77. To the bird watcher, the suburbanite who derives joy from birds in his garden, the hunter, the fisherman or the explorer of wild regions, anything that destroys the wildlife of an area for even a single year has deprived him of pleasure to which he has a legitimate right.
Rachel Carson
#78. A true book is like a net, and words are the mesh. The nature of the mesh matters relatively little. What matters is the live catch the fisherman draws up from the depths of the sea, the flashings of silver that we see gleam within the net.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#79. A positive attitude and an open mind are true characteristics of all good fishermen
Kevin VanDam
#80. A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels.
Herbert Hoover
#81. A lone fisherman up early looking for sea trout found the first body.
Kate Atkinson
#82. Da was a real fisherman. But it wasn't the catch that mattered, it was the skill of the cast, the preparation of the flies. I often think my inability to prepare, my desire to get going, are a direct result of watching my father making all those painstaking preparations before he cast his line.
Terry Wogan
#83. A trout fisherman is something that defieth understanding.
Corey Ford
#84. If you push me far enough, all I really know is that he was a fine fisherman."
"You know more than that," my father said. "He was beautiful.
Norman Maclean
#85. there is no such thing as chance. All is either a trial, or a punishment, or a reward, or a foresight. Remember the fisherman, who thought himself the most wretched of mankind. Oromazes sent thee to change his fate. Cease then, frail mortal, to dispute against what thou oughtest to adore." "But,
Voltaire
#86. A poor fisherman who knows the beauties of the misty mornings is much richer than a wealthy man who sleeps till noon in his palace!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#87. Na, she's righted again," said a cool young fisherman, "and they've gotten down that unchancy mast. They maun have stout hearts and skeely hands that work her; but it's for life, and that learns folk baith pith and lear. There! - but it's owre now.
Mrs. Oliphant
#88. And Pencroft returned to his work, not without uttering a sigh of regret, for every sailor is a born fisherman, and if the pleasure of fishing is in exact proportion to the size of the animal, one can judge how a whaler feels in sight of a whale.
Jules Verne
#89. As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.
Paul Schullery
#90. A storm caught them on the way. The fisherman drowned, but his daughter got Stark to the Sisters before the boat went down. They say he left her with a bag of silver and a bastard in her belly. Jon Snow, she named him, after Arryn.
George R R Martin
#91. I'm a big outdoorsman ... I'm a big hunter. Avid fisherman. Hiker. Climber. Scuba diver. Skier. Love the outdoors.
Bruce Rauner
#92. There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.
Jack Nicklaus
#93. Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.
John D. Voelker
#94. Could an angler go fishing without a fishing rod, line and hook? It depends what they're fishing for.
Fennel Hudson
#95. If the gospel was of a nature to be propagated or maintained by the power of the world, God would not have intrusted it to fishermen. To defend the gospel appertains not to the princes and pontiffs of this world.
Martin Luther
#96. Diane is my spiritual guide. She is a Duke- and Harvard-educated oyster fisherman in Cape Cod. Now there's something you don't hear every day. Like Jackie and Doug, she does not seek the spotlight.
Megyn Kelly
#97. I'm a passionate, hardcore fisherman. Biggest fish I caught? A 200-pound tarpon.
Dwayne Johnson
#98. The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the skill and mastery the fish demands from the fisherman
Charles Ritz
#99. I've seen only painters and fishermen and I think they're both the same kind of men who made a different choice one time in their lives. The fisherman held a rod in his hand and said yes and the painter held a brush in his hand and said yes and sometimes I hold a beer in my hand and say yes.
Sherman Alexie
#100. As a teenage fisherman, I watched and followed terns to find fish. Later, I studied terns for my Ph.D.
Carl Safina
