Funny Fishing Quotes

Quote #1

“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

Quote #2

“The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I’d rather go fishing for three days.”
Whitey Herzog

Quote #3

“We ask a simple question and that is all we wish… Are all fisherman liars or do only liars fish?
William Sherwood Fox

Quote #4

“Three-fourths of the Earth’s surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn.”
Chuck Clark

Quote #5

“I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don’t know what’s on the other end. Your imagination is under there.”
Robert Altman

Quote #6

“There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process.”
Paul O’Neil

 Quote #7

“Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overo it.”
Lao Tzu

Quote #8

“The two biggest things that translate from a pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you’re on the mound, you have to take the game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I’m in the woods or out on the water as well.”
Jon Lester

Quote #9

“Like they say, you can learn more from a guide in one day than you can in three months fishing alone.”
Mario Lopez

Quote #10

“I get out in my boat and go fishing inshore and offshore”
Rickie Fowler

Quote #11

“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.”
Rich Barry

Quote #12

“I learned the first night that IHOP’s not the place to order fish.”
Larry David

Quote #13

“Once I retire and slow down, I don’t want to be in New York. I want to be somewhere near a lake or a pond, so that on my days when I have nothing to do, I can go fishing.”
Sharon Jones

 Quote #14

“I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.”
Anthony Doerr

Quote #15

“Do not tell fish stories where the people know you… but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.”
Mark Twain

Quote #16

“I can really fish… I’ve been fishing since I was a little kid.”
Deion Sanders

Quote #17

“I only make movies to finance my fishing.”
Lee Marvin

Quote #18

“I grew up in a small, strictly Catholic fishing village on the coast of Wales. The people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood… people stick together more.”
Catherine Zeta-Jones

Quote #19

“The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as ‘taboo.’ If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understood that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.”
Paul Watson

Quote #20

“When I go fishing I like to know that there’s nobody within five miles of me.”
Norman MacCaig

 Quote #21

“I’m just a simple guy. I love being at my house with my family. I love playing dominos and card games and hunting and fishing. That’s just what I like to do.”
Jase Robertson

Quote #22

“If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren’t ready when that fish hits, you can’t set the hook.”
Lee Trevino

Quote #23

"We ask a simple question and that is all we wish; Are all fisherman liars or do only liars fish?"
William Sherwood Fox

 Quote #24

“One guy that I wish was here right now is Ted Williams. He helped me so much, our long talks… not about hitting baseballs but about fishing, one of Ted’s passions… and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.”
Wade Boggs

Quote #25

“There are only two occasions when American respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.”
Herbert Hoover 

Quote #26

“There’s an absolute surety to the hands-on conservation lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and trapping where you know you’re going to consume today,”
Ted Nugent

Quote #27

“Somebody behind you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.”
Ernest Hemingway

Quote #28

“What people don’t understand is that this is something that we only have in America. There is no other country in the world where the ordinary citizen can go out and enjoy hunting and fishing. There’s no other nation in the world where that happens. And it’s very much a part of our heritage”
General Norman Schwarzkopf

Quote #29

“My main aim is getting set up so that when I do quit, I can step away and re-evaluate what I want to do in life. Do I want to get to 50 years old and come back? Or will I just want to go home and be fishing, hunting, and working around the house?”
Boo Weekley

Quote #31

“Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.”
Don Marquis

Quote #34

“There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there’s always a new place, always a new horizon.”
Jack Nicklaus

Quote #35

“The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions of hope.”
John Buchan

Quote #36

“I do hunt and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.”
General Norman Schwarzkopf

Quote #37

“Anytime I can sneak in a moment to fish and ride horses, I’m a happy camper!”
George Foreman

Quote #38

“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after”
Henry David Thoreau

Quote #39

“I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it’s so relaxing, so quiet, and peaceful. I mean, there’s no noise other than nature… and it’s so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.”
Tiger Woods

Quote #40

“Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self”
Ted Hughes

Quote #41

“Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night… You have to be wise and smart. And quick.”
Mariano Rivera

Quote #42

“Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown on stage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing.”
Les Claypool

Quote #43

“Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.”
Benjamin Franklin

Quote #44

“There’s a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.”
Steven Wright

Quote #45

“If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d by a shortage of fishing poles.”
Doug Larson

Quote #46

“Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn’t go to the colleges… he got guys off the fishing docks.”
Jeff Foxworthy

Quote #47

“Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.”
Herbert Hoover

Quote #48

“Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls..."
Jim Harrison

Quote #49

“Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job."
Paul Schullery

Quote #50

“As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, T thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint."
Jack Handey

Quote #51

“An angler is a man who spends rainy days sitting on muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won't let him do it at home."
Unknown

Quote #52

“My biggest worry is that my wife(when I am dead) will try to sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it..."
Koos Brandt

Quote #53

“It's ok to eat fish because they don't have any feelings."
Kurt Cobain

Quote #54

“Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught."
Unknown

Quote #55

"There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process."
Paul O’Neil

Quote #56

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."
Henry David Thoreau

Quote #57

"There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm."
Patrick F. McManus

Quote #58

"The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad."
A. K. Best

Quote #59

“A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work."
Unknown

Quote #60

“Fishing is the sport of drowning worms."
Unknown

Quote #61

“The best way to a fisherman’s heart is through his fly."
Unknown

Quote #62

“May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it."
Irish Saying

Quote #63

"It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming."
John Steinbeck