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Create unique Nautical wall decor with these Nautical quotes
An old phrase evokes the fly-fisher's spring: the sweet of the vear. R. PALMER BAKER
About ninety in a hundred fancy themselves anglers. About one in a hundred is an angler. COL. PETER HAWKER INSTRUCTIONS TO YOUNG SPORTSMEN (1814)
... there has ever been a delightful uncertainty attending the angler's art, and therein lies one of its chiefest charms. JAMES HENSHALL BOOK OF THE BLACK BASS [1881)
... the tyrannical fascination which angling holds for all those who have once been initiated into its mysteries. RAFAEL SABATINI (1875-1950)
... the most honest, ingenious, harmless art of Angling. IZAAK WALTON THE COMPLEAT ANGLER (1653)
... so here's to you a hearty draught, and to all that love us, and the honest art of Angling. IZAAK WALTON THE COMPLEAT ANGLER (1653)
... no man is born an artist nor an Angler. IZAAK WALTON THE COMPLEAT ANGLER [1653)
.. . tis not all of fishing to fish. IZAAK WALTON THE COMPLEAT ANGLER (1653)
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendel Holmes
I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing. IZAAK WALTON (l653)
I only fish on days that end in "Y".
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way. - John Paul Jones
If all the worlds enjoyments That ever valued were, There's none of our employments With fishing can compare. THOMAS D 'URFEY (l719)
If fishing is interfering with your business, give up your business. -- Alfred W. Miller
If people concentrated on the REALLY important things in life, there would be a shortage of fishing poles!
If wishes were fishes, we'd have a fish fry.
If you were to make little fish talk, they would talk like whales. JAMES BOSWELL (l79l)
It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait. THOMAS FULLER (l732}
It is time to be old To take in sail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lord, help me see the day when I catch the one that got away!
Lure the Best!
Men and fish are alike. They both get into trouble when they open their mouths.
Mere wishes for fishes aren't edible dishes. JULIAN SNOW (C. 1925)
Most anglers spend their lives in making rules for trout, and trout spend theirs in breaking them. GEORGE ASTON (l926)
My rod and my reel, they comfort me.
Never in my life before have I experienced such beauty, and fear at the same time. Ten icebergs so far today ... - Ellen MacArthur
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. JOHN RUSKIN (C. 1880)
Nothing grows faster than a fish from when it bites until it gets away.
Notice: This is the home of a serious fisherman. Chances are it will not be occupied during fishing season.
Notice: This is the office of a serious fisherman. Please excuse occasional daydreaming!
Old fishermen never die, they just smell like they did!
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Man
Once an angler, always a fisherman. If we cannot have the best, we will take the least, and fish for minnows if nothing better is to be had. THEODORE GORDON (l912) Where the pools are bright and deep, Where the grey trout lies asleep, p the river and over the lea, That's the way for Billy and me.
Glory be to God for dappled things For skies as couple-color as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim.
To look into the depths of the sea is to behold the imagination of the Unknown VICTOR HUGO (C. 1880) Ihere is certainly something in angling . . . that seems to produce 1 gentleness of spirit, and a pure serenity of mind. WASHINGTON IRVING (C. 1820}
Raise your sail one foot, and you get ten feet of wind. - Chinese Proverb
Red sky by morning, sailor take warning. Red sky at night, sailor's delight. - Anonymous
Tall fish tales told here.
The best fish swim near the bottom. JOHN CLARKE (1639)
The day was fine, not another hook in the brook. DANIEL WEBSTER (C. 1835)
The end of fishing is not angling, but catching. THOMAS FULLER (l732)
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. -William Arthur Ward
The sea hath fish for every man. WILLIAM CAMDEN (l605)
The two best times to fish is when it's rainin' and when it ain't. --Patrick F. McManus
The woods are made for the hunters of dreams, The brooks for the fishers of song. SAMFOSS (C. 1900)
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot!
There is no taking trout with dry breeches. CERVANTES (1615)
There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. - Water Rat, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
There isn't no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. Boats are quite tricky enough for those that sit still without looking further for the cause of trouble. - Sam Gamgee, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in. - Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn. --Chuck Clark
To fish or not to fish...NOT TO FISH ?? Yea, like that's even an option!
Wanted: Good woman who can: Cook, sew, clean fish, has boat and motor. Send photo of boat and motor!
Warning! Fishing is catching!
WELCOME FISHERMEN: Landlubbers by Appointment!
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