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If fishing is
a religion, fly fishing is high church.
-- Tom Brokaw
1940-, American TV
Personality, Editor
Somebody just
back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone
looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your
girl.
-- Ernest Hemingway
1898-1961, American Writer
Fishing seems
to be the favorite form of loafing.
-- Edgar Watson Howe
1853-1937, American
Journalist, Author
Some people
are under the impression that all that is required to make a
good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and
without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald
fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It
is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of
probability, the general air of scrupulous -- almost of
pedantic -- veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.
-- Jerome K. Jerome
1859-1927, British Humorous
Writer, Novelist, Playwright
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Fly fishing
may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float
fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a
worm at one end and a fool at the other.
-- Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
Fishing is a
delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
-- Don Marquis
1878-1937, American Humorist,
Journalist
No human
being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a
fish.
-- John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic,
Social Theorist
All you need
to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.
-- Herb Shriner
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