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"If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church."

Brokaw, Tom on Fishing
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"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."

Hemingway, Ernest on Fishing
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"Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing."

Howe, Edgar Watson on Fishing
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"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, Jerome K. on Fishing
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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."

Johnson, Samuel on Fishing
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"Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes."

Marquis, Don on Fishing
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"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish."

Ruskin, John on Fishing
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"All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm."

Shriner, Herb on Fishing
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"The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled."

Thoreau, Henry David on Fishing
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"Caution is a most valuable asset in fishing, especially if you are the fish."

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"Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned."

Walton, Izaak on Fishing
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"We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling."

Walton, Izaak on Fishing
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