I'd Rather Be Fishing Quotes

#1. So he taped a sign on the bathroom door that said OFFICE OF MR. THOMAS WADE. My mom put a sign next to it that said I'D RATHER BE FISHING.

Katherine Applegate

#2. Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.

Bill Barich

#3. Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

Zane Grey

#4. Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.

Norman MacCaig

#5. One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.

Henry Paulson

#6. Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

Thomas McGuane

#7. The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.

Timothy Ferriss

#8. I've been a straight man for so many years that from force of habit I repeat everything. I went out fishing with a fellow the other day and he fell overboard. He yelled, Help! Help! Help! so I said, Help? Help? Help? And while I was waiting for him to get his laugh, he drowned.

George Burns

#9. There is no such thing as too much snow.

Doug Coombs

#10. Klamath was all about fishing and socializing and cooking and eating, and waking up the next day to start over again.

Kim Gordon

#11. I do fish, and as a matter of fact, I used to do a lot of deep sea fishing, but as far as going into the water, I don't go out deep into the water.

Ving Rhames

#12. In the suburban Midwestern Reform Jewish world I was raised in, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, grown men built plastic scale models of Israeli tanks and F-15 jets and displayed them throughout the house, dangling the warplanes from bedroom ceilings with fishing line.

Rick Perlstein

#13. 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

#14. Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future generations can experience the bliss of breathing clean crisp air, while fishing in the Adirondacks ... and being able to eat the fish afterwards.

Gloria Reuben

#15. Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.

Rudyard Kipling

#16. Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

Jimmy Carter

#17. If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time.

Dizzy Dean

#18. If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.

Carl Safina

#19. On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.

Arnold Gingrich

#20. To catch affection, try being efficient by using a fishing net. You can't sit back and wait for romance to grow on trees.

Jarod Kintz

#21. The fishermen could not remain in their fishing boats and become apostles of Jesus Christ.

Henry T. Blackaby

#22. The fishermen of Port Sonas care only for the two things, fishing and women. And there's some that are no' that keen on the fishing.

Naomi Mitchison

#23. 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

#24. Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.

Arnold Gingrich

#25. 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

#26. Next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

Arthur Ransome

#27. The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

Herbert Hoover

#28. It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.

Theodore Gordon

#29. There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.

W.S. Gilbert

#30. He'd tried fishing, dancing, gambling and drink, allegedly four of life's greatest pleasures, and wasn't sure that he saw the point. Food he was happy with - Death liked a good meal as much as anyone else.

Anonymous

#31. Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

Izaak Walton

#32. I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.

John Ford

#33. If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod ... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod.

Mark Kurlansky

#34. If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.

Alan Sillitoe