Top 33 Not Catching Fish Quotes
#1. In a recent interview, Hillary Clinton said that one of the jobs that prepared her to be president was sliming fish in Alaska. As opposed to Bill, who learned by catching crabs in Cancun.
Jimmy Fallon
#2. We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.
Jerry Bridges
#3. Catching fish is secondary to the immeasurable joys of the watery world.
Fennel Hudson
#4. The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.
A. Best
#5. Don't build roadblocks out of assumptions.
Lorii Myers
#7. You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
Karel Capek
#8. 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
#9. Many climate scientists say their biggest fear is that warming could melt the Arctic permafrost - which stretches for thousands of miles across Alaska, Canada, and Siberia.
Michael Specter
#10. 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
#11. The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.
Henry David Thoreau
#12. 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
#13. I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#14. True religion must raise to work at the bar and the bench, on the couch and on the streets, in the cottage of the poor man and in the penthouse of the entrepreneur, with the fisherman that is catching fish and with the students that are studying.
Abhijit Naskar
#15. 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
#16. In the bush he taught the knots I use to tie my blanket to my saddle Ds also the way I stand to use a carpenter's plane and the trick of catching fish with a bush fly and a strip of greenhide these things are like the dark marks made in the rings of great trees locked forever in my daily self.
Peter Carey
#17. Fly fishing is not about catching the fish. It is about enjoying the water, the breeze, the fish swimming all around. If you catch one, good. If you don't ... that is even better. That mean you come out and get to try all over again.
Clare Vanderpool
#18. If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know
how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.
Norman Maclean
#19. Fishing's relaxing, man. Most relaxing thing in my life. It's therapy for me. I don't think about business ... sports. All I think about is catching the next fish.
Deion Sanders
#20. The fishing is a great relief for me. When I'm out there's no cell phone ringing. I'm out there fishing with bears. I'm in the middle of God's country catching tons of fish. I just absolutely love it.
Rick Barry
#21. I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
Orison Swett Marden
#22. Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.
Rafael Sabatini
#23. Millennia ago, some genius discovered that such wiggles as fish and
rabbits could be caught in nets. Much later, some other genius thought
of catching the world in a net.
Alan W. Watts
#24. Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
Abraham Cahan
#25. We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching a shrieking fish.
Leigh Hunt
#26. There are a million-and-one ways to enjoy a day's angling. Catching fish is but one of them.
Fennel Hudson
#27. Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
Roger Kahn
#28. Promising to bring home a feed of fish is the absolute kiss of death to any chances of catching anything but a large heap of derision when you get home.
Tony Bishop
#29. You sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own words. It was interesting the way people could know things and not know them at the same time. Denial, he said, was like a thick stone wall.
Nell Freudenberger
#30. 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
#31. Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.
Robert Hughes
#32. Catching fish is low on my agenda when I go fishing. I'm much more interested in savouring the day and exploring the wildlife of the river.
Fennel Hudson
#33. Street Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it ...
Thomas Leuthard
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