Angler Quotes

#1. For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by an inbred love of communing with nature

Thaddeus Norris

#2. THE ANGLER "I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture." Byron.

Charles Barker Bradford

#3. An excellent angler, and now with God.

Izaak Walton

#4. For me, the life of the angler is an almost flawless example of how not to have a good time.

Christopher Hitchens

#5. Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.

Anne Bradstreet

#6. As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

Izaak Walton

#7. Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

Harold Russell

#8. The true angler is generally a modest man.....

Thaddeus Norris

#9. 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.

Tom Felton

#10. Could an angler go fishing without a fishing rod, line and hook? It depends what they're fishing for.

Fennel Hudson

#11. In a clear brook
With joyful haste
The whimsical trout
Shot past me like an arrow
I play the line of the song, I play the leaps and plunges of the right hand of the piano, I am the trout, the angler, the brook, the observer.

Vikram Seth

#12. There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

Zane Grey

#13. And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte.

Juliana Berners

#14. I am an old fashioned angler seeking to fish in a peaceful and relaxing way in traditional surroundings. Other anglers are too noisy, too busy, and catch fish that might break my landing net.

Fennel Hudson

#15. The fly angler who says they have never, ever fallen while wading , is either a pathogenic liar, or has never been fly-fishing.

Jimmy Moore

#16. It is the goings-on between bites that excites the traditional angler as much as when the float goes under.

Fennel Hudson

#17. There's nothing sweeter than a real friend:
Not only is he prompt to lend
An angler delicate, he fishes
The very deepest of your wishes,
And spares your modesty the task
His friendly aid to ask.
A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear,
When pointing at the object dear.

Jean De La Fontaine

#18. A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish.

Robbie Keane

#19. 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.

Leigh Hunt

#20. No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

Izaak Walton

#21. The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead.

Stephen Leacock

#22. The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.

Edwin Way Teale

#23. She wasn't the sort of catch one could take home and show off to people; she was the sort of catch that drags the angler off the end of the pier and pulls him out to sea before tearing him to pieces as he's drowning. He shouldn't have been fishing at all, not when he was so ill-equipped.

Nick Hornby

#24. 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!

John Wolcot

#25. As an angler and a gardener, I cherish each drop of rain that falls.

Fennel Hudson

#26. For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say.

Eva Ibbotson

#27. Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.

Marc Maron

#28. Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.

Samuel Smiles

#29. Take a kid fishing. You'll capture their imagination.

Max Hawthorne

#30. My first web series, 'Dorm Diaries,' was a realistic mockumentary about what it was like to be black at Stanford University. I'm black and I went to Stanford. Boom. Easy.

Issa Rae

#31. This is the man who will be my grandfather - the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collapsed time.

Wendell Berry

#32. Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.

Bill Owens

#33. God's will for your life is God's will for today, and it doesn't get any more glamorous than that.

Gloria Gaither

#34. The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life.

Stockwell Day

#35. I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable.

Patricia Heaton

#36. But until we get rid of that shame, then people are going to stay underground, they are not going to get tested, and we're facing an uphill battle [with AIDS].

Elton John

#37. In an age of infinite digital documentation, paper was the last safe place for secrets.

Evan Angler