Fishing Tackle Quotes

#1. Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has ever improved on that statement.

John Gierach

#2. Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions.

Howard Raiffa

#3. Towards that small and ghostly hour, [Mr. Cruncher] rose up from his chair, took a key out of his pocket, opened a locked cupboard, and brought forth a sack, a crowbar of convenient size, a rope and chain, and other fishing tackle of that nature.

Charles Dickens

#4. To be loved, feelings must be rationed. To love, the doors of hysteria, fantasy, and madness may be flung open.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#5. Fish sense, applied in the field, is what the old Zen masters would call enlightenment: simply the ability to see what's right there in front of you without having to sift through a lot of thoughts and theories and, yes, expensive fishing tackle.

John Gierach

#6. Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive.

Mason Cooley

#7. And, as a mere matter of ficfect, I tell of myself how I popo possess the ripest littlums wifukie around the globelettes globes (...)

James Joyce

#8. I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

Christopher Hampton

#9. Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance.

Louis Kronenberger

#10. There are two distinct visits to tackle-shops, the visit to buy tackle and the visit which may be described as Platonic when, being for some reason unable to fish, we look for an excuse to go in, and waste the tackle dealer's time.

Arthur Ransome

#11. There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.

Faith Baldwin

#12. If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

David McCallum

#13. Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.

Patrick F. McManus

#14. Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

David Del Tredici

#15. When you get to a point where there's absolutely nothing you can count on in this world, you're home free.

Art Hochberg

#16. It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

Voltaire

#17. There is a clear correlation between how we treat each other and how a watching world will feel about Jesus. What should our neighbors deduce from our loving-kindness toward one another? One, that we obviously belong to Jesus, because what other explanation exists for such beautiful community?

Jen Hatmaker

#18. When all the decent pleasures are forbidden, there's always ways to get the rotten ones. You don't break into grocery stores after dark and you don't pick your fellow's pockets to buy classical symphonies or fishing tackle, but if it's to get stinking drunk and forget you do.

Ayn Rand