Keyword: Fishing

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
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Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

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You give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, but you teach a man to fish and you’ve saved yourself a fish haven’t you?”

(1968 – ) English comedian & actor
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Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali; he was using a dotted line… he caught every other fish.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
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Sinker: Lead weight attached to the end of a length of fishing line to facilitate the speedy disposal of unwanted lures.

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On fishing shows they always throw the fish back; they don’t want to eat them, they just want to make them late for something.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian
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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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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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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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Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author
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Limit: Maximum number of a particular fish that an angler can take in a day. This number varies from place to place and species to species, but it is a largely theoretical restriction with little practical application.

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If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks.

(1918 – 1990) football coach
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Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him forf the entire weekend.


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Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers.

(1945 – ) American humorist (co-founder of National Lampoon)
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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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If you're too busy to go fishin', you're too busy.

(1908 – 2003) American actor & dancer
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They should call fishing what it really is… tricking and killing!

(1973 – ) American comedian
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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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Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Don’t teach a man to fish… and feed yourself. He’s a grown man. And fishing’s not that hard.

(1970 – ) American actor, writer & carpenter
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Whenever two fishing lines are contiguous, they will become continuous.

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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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