Quotes About Anglers

#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. Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

Ernest Hemingway,

#3. The long hour and a half walk-in to the secret pool , only to find four anglers filling it. Secret pools? The only secret about these pools is the name of the one person on the planet who does not know their location!

Tony Bishop

#4. I am aware, of course, that many men do hate the sight of their wife and children. Doctors even have a name for these people: 'anglers'.

Jeremy Clarkson

#5. Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers.

Henry Beard

#6. See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

#7. 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

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

Izaak Walton

#9. As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.

David Eagleman

#10. These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

Izaak Walton

#11. Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.

Leigh Hunt

#12. Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be very little hindered.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#13. Had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all.

Andrew Lang

#14. For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton whose book published in 1653 spoke not of anglers and , but anglers OR very honest men .

Arthur Ransome

#15. The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.

Cyril Connolly

#16. 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

#17. I thought the fart was a human thing. It's something to do with like, arse cheeks, or whatever.

Karl Pilkington

#18. There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.

Tom Felton

#19. He slept beneath the moon, he basked beneath the sun; he lived a life of going to do and died with nothing done

James Albery

#20. This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

Izaak Walton

#21. my heart swells with gratitude to the beneficent God of this earth just now. He sees not as man sees, but far clearer: judges not as man judges, but far more wisely.

Charlotte Bronte

#22. Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect.

Joe Brooks

#23. 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

#24. Young anglers love new rivers the way they love the rest of their lives. Time does not seem to be of the essence and somewhere in the system is what they are looking for.

Thomas McGuane

#25. When I ran across America, for 75 days I ate 10,000 calories a day. I still lost about five pounds.

Dean Karnazes

#26. Anglers ... exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.

Roderick Haig-Brown

#27. What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed nerve endings and you can't hear your fellow anglers' hysterical laughter.

Jessica Maxwell

#28. Anglers may be divided into almost as many genera and species as the fish they catch, and engage in the sport from as many impulses.

Thaddeus Norris

#29. The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art ...

Robert Burns

#30. the devil may win the battle - but Christ has already won the war.

David Jeremiah

#31. My wife wonders why all women do not seek anglers for husbands. She has come in contact with many in her life with me and she claims that they all have a sweetness in their nature which others lack.

Ray Bergman

#32. The first time I bring a girl home, and not only is she the daughter of a famous poker player, but she could easily bankrupt us all in a single hand. For being the family fuckup, I felt like I had finally gained a little respect from my older brothers. And it was all because of Abby.

Jamie McGuire