It is to be observed that ‘angling’ is the name given to fishing by people who can’t fish. Stephen Leacock
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles. Doug Larson
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. Ernest Hemingway
There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. Stephen Wright
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. Herbert Hoover
All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight. John Steinbeck
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. Samuel Johnson
Everything appertaining to the angler’s art is cowardly, cruel, treacherous, and cat-like. Paul Chatfield
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 K Jerome
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt. Izaak Walton
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler. Izaak Walton
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself. Izaak Walton
You will find angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it. Izaak Walton