Fishing sayings and quotes
Our verbal research department has been beavering away, blowing the cobwebs off
old angling sayings, buffing them up to a high lustre and lining them up carefully
on the mantlepiece for the inlaws to approve of.
"When the winds in the East, the fish bite least;
When the winds in the West, you catch even less;
When the winds in the South, fish go nil by mouth;
When the winds in the North, its cold."
"The gods do not subtract from the allotted span of men's lives the hours spent
on fishing." - Assyrian proverb 1
"Red sky at night, shepherds delight." 2
"Born to fish, forced to work." 3
"There's no taking trout with dry breeches." - Miguel de Cervantes 4
"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will
eat for a lifetime." - old Chinese proverb 5
"There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the
mind." - Washington Irving 6
"Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before
fish." - Herbert Hoover 7
"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to
the fine simplicity of our forefathers." - Herbert Hoover 8
"Throw a lucky man in the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth." -
Arab Saying 9
"Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned."
- Izaak Walton 10