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Pigeon River, Smokey Mountain National Park, TN
Fly Fishing Quotes
I
like good fishing quotes. Below are a few of my favorites. If you
have one to add just email it to us.
"Trout bumhood is
like knighthood – it’s not for everyone." Spencer Durrant
“Most
of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick
out the best parts.”
Charles Waterman
"Eventually all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.
The river was cut by the world´s great floods and runs over rocks
from the basement of time.... I am haunted by waters."
Norman Maclean, "A river runs through it 1976.
"Some
go to church and think about fishing, others go fishing and think
about God."
Tony
Blake
“If
you’re too successful to fish whenever you want, one could argue
that you’re not really a success." John Gierach
" We fish for hours to hold a trout for seconds."
Unknown
"I've
gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once
felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water."
William Tapply
"Trout are among those creatures who are one hell of
a lot prettier than they need to be. They can get you to wondering
about the hidden workings of reality." John Gierach
"There are people in my life who sometimes worry
about me when I go off into the fields and streams, not realizing
that the country is a calm, gracious, forgiving place and that the
real dangers are found in the civilization you have to pass through
to get there." John Gierach
“You
can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months
fishing alone.” Mario Lopez
"If I
fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended a
long time ago." Zane Grey
"You
never get what you really want, until you discover what you really
value. " ... Andy Stanley
"A
trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it."
Arnold Gingrich
“Give
a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you
feed him for a lifetime.” Maimonides
"There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a
serenity of the mind."
Washington Irving
"I
will make you fishers of men." Jesus
"All
the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is
in no way shared by the fish."
Harold F. Blaisdell
“I
only make movies to finance my fishing.” Lee Marvin
“The
beauty of the natural world lies in the details.”
Natalie Angier
“In
all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
Aristotle
"Want
what U have." Unknown
"He
told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left
to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen
on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the
favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman." Norman Macean
"Time
is but the stream I go a-fishing in. Its thin current slides away,
but eternity remains."
Henry
David Thoreau
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