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“There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.”
“He can't have gone, he said "Christ know he can't have gone. He's making a turn. Maybe he has been hooked before and her remembers something of it." The he felt the gentle touch on the line and he ...”
“Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.”
“It's a fine, warm day, Henry replied. I thought a spot of fishing?Just the thing! said Felix. Will you join us, Lucy? Lucy felt Kitty and Sophia staring at her. Well-bred ladies, evidently, did not...”
“Youve heard the saying, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." Well, just change that to "F**k a man and youve made him happy for a day...”
“...I'm momentarily transfixed, torn between curiosity and fear. I can pull it up the gently sloping mud bank, but then what? Already thought is lagging behind events, as the blotchy brown mass slid...”
“I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination”
“...as the old saying goes: if you teach a man to fish, he will feed himself for a lifetime. But if you just give him a fishing pole, hell have to teach himself.”
“Dont worry, he said, that grandfatherly smile spreading across his face once more, Ive been fishing for over forty years. Youve got plenty of time to catch up, maybe even pass what Ive done. Youre ...”
“The river reflected whatever it chose of sky and bridge and burning tree, and when the undergraduate had oared his boat through the reflections they closed again, completely, as if they had never b...”
“But in the dark now and no glow showing and no lights and only the wind and the steady pull of the sail he felt that perhaps he was already dead. He put his two hands together and felt the palms. T...”
“From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.”
“I grew up hunting and fishing. I've always been into archery. I've always been into cars... In my family, that was just stuff we did. That's just the way it was.”
“If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.”
“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 understand that the...”
“I only make movies to finance my fishing.”
“It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.”
“The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.”
“It's a fine, warm day,” Henry replied. “I thought a spot of fishing?”“Just the thing!” said Felix. “Will you join us, Lucy?” Lucy felt Kitty and Sophia staring at her. Well-bred ladies, evidently, ...”
“You’ve heard the saying, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." Well, just change that to "F**k a man and you’ve made him happy for a d...”
