Keyword: Fishing

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist
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Exaggeration: Formal term for a collection of fishermen (i.e. an exaggeration of anglers).

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Angler: A man who spends rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won’t let him do it at home.

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Hook: Irritating but highly reliable device used to quickly locate the position of one’s thumb at the bottom of a tackle box.

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If you're too busy to go fishin', you're too busy.

(1908 – 2003) American actor & dancer
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Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author
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Anglers think they are divining some primeval natural force by outwitting a fish, a creature that never even got out of the evolutionary starting gate.

(1954 – ) American comedian, writer & musician
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They should call fishing what it really is… tricking and killing!

(1973 – ) American comedian
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If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks.

(1918 – 1990) football coach
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Fishing: A delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

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I would like to go fishing and catch a fishstick… that would be convenient.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian
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Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.

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There’s a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an idiot.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
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Whenever two fishing lines are contiguous, they will become continuous.

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There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in presidents; those are prayer and fishing.

(1929 – 1933) 31st U.S. president, humanitarian
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It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.

(1902 – 1968) novelist
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist
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You might be a redneck if… you've ever been too drunk to fish.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality
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Fishing: A venerable contest in which modern man pits his intelligence and technology against the native wit of primitive aquatic vertebrates, and generally finishes second.

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There are more fish taken out of a stream than ever were in it.

(1863 – 1935) British-born American writer, artist & illustrator
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Fishing relaxes me. It’s like yoga, except I still get to kill something.

(1970 – ) American actor, writer & carpenter
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