Fisherman’s Quotes and Sayings

 

John Singer Sargent ‘On His Holidays’ 1902

This sums it up in many ways.

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. ~Washington Irving

The gods do not deduct from man’s allotted span, the hours spent in fishing. ~Babylonian Proverb 

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

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish, goes home through an alley.
~Author Unknown 

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