The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.
Mary Astor
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UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR He catches the best fish who angles with a golden hook
LATIN PROVERB Catches everything that comes his way, has soft hands and great balance. He goes and gets the ball.
CLARK HAGGANS The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a c...
JOSE BERGAMIN Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity o...
HERBERT HOOVER Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go ho...
ANN LANDERS Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go h...
ANN LANDERS He who is feared gets more than his own.
SPANISH PROVERB A man who sits under a tree and dreams makes more journey than a man who goes around the world witho...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN What is a highbrow? He is a man who has found something more interesting than women
EDGAR WALLACE Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
C. S. LEWIS Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
C.S. LEWIS He gets through too late who goes too fast.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) He gets through too late who goes too fast
PUBLILIUS SYRUS As for those who state that it is thanks to a woman, the lady Eve, that man was expelled from paradi...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of ...
DEREK WALL He knew so much about fishing. It was a delight to watch him fish, especially fly fishing. There was...
LARRY BIRLEFFI It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
STEPHEN LEACOCK The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
NAPOLEON HILL He is a tough businessman. If he gets his sights on something, he goes and does it.
CHARLIE SHELTON Genius is intensity. The man who gets anything worth having is the man who goes after his object a...
C. HOLMAN If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine the...
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DON ERIKSEN Who gets two years on something like this? I've got first offenders getting more than that.
GLENN MITCHELL Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
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SYLVIA EARLE Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish.
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LEE MELSEK We would go fishing in my boat. Baron loved fishing and every time he caught a small fish, he would ...
GRAHAM HYNES Man always gets less than he demands from life.
JACK LONDON There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for ...
DANIEL PAULY You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't...
MITCH HEDBERG An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.
IZAAK WALTON I go to Alaska and fish salmon. I do some halibut fishing, lake fishing, trout fishing, fly fishing....
LINDA HAMILTON Caution is a most valuable asset in fishing, especially if you are the fish.
SOURCE UNKNOWN She really liked to fish. We still have her fishing rod in the house.
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LLOYD JONES The expectation is that there will be more fish available. Typically, the (stocked) brook trout are ...
FRANCIS BRAUTIGAM Phillip Holloman, he's a city boy, but he's getting the hang of it now. Now that he's caught a coupl...
A.J. DAVIS The main principles for trout fishing are food and cover. If fish can get under the (ice) shelf and ...
ADAM GRANT Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing.
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ERIC YARBER One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
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C. JOYBELL C. I shall stay no longer than to wish him a rainy day to read this... discourse; and that if he be an ...
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MARY D. POOLE He who hunts two hares at once, catches neither
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his...
CHINESE PROVERB When I was a little kid, I fished real worms to catch fish and my nickname was Wormy. The worms also...
JIMMY D. MOORE When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’l...
TREVOR NOAH That's the reason I'm catching bigger fish. They're on isolated beds, and I'm fishing really slow.
LUKE CLAUSEN With the way fishing is at the moment, there will be no fish left in the sea in a few years' time.
KAROL RZEPKOWSKI Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Tea...
JAY LENO No, he'll impact the fishermen more than the fish.
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ROBERT FROST A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolut...
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to bed at night and in betwee...
BOB DYLAN What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in betwee...
BOB DYLAN A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
GRANVILLE HICKS A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
HENRY FORD A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when you...
LAO TZU Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest un...
BILL DRAYTON When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man...
JOHN WESLEY When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man...
JOHN WESLEY He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He who makes a beast of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man.
SAMUEL JOHNSON A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than t...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willi...
DALE CARNEGIE In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes.
JOHN ERSKINE In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes.
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JEFF FOXWORTHY Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
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JOSEPH FRENCH JOHNSON The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is the fell...
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BRIAN BORKHOLDER A happy man is one who wants what he has. An unhappy man gets what he wants but never stops wanting.
VIKRANT PARSAI He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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BALTASAR GRACIáN A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
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MARY DALY Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.
MARY DALY The divine egoism hat is genius.
MARY WEBB Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
MARY HAYS The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
MARY PICKFORD One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept s...
MARY OLIVER In violence we forget who we are.
MARY MCCARTHY We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a...
MARY DALY If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?
MARY ASTELL It sounds extraordinary but it?s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.
MARY ARCHER Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascinati...
MARY MCCARTHY Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you.
MARY BLY Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
MARY MCCARTHY