#fishing

These enthusiasts often like to hang signs that say "Gone Fishin'" or "Gone Huntin'". But what these slogans really mean is "Gone Killing. ↗

— Marc Bekoff

#fishing #hunting #killing #speciesism #respect

It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you. ↗

— Jim Dale

#bites #casting #feeling #few #fishing

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. ↗

— Steven Wright

#fine #fine line #fishing #idiot #just

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish. ↗

— Steven Wright

#dali #dotted #every #fish #fishing

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#bad #fishing #girl #just #letter

When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover. ↗

— Paris Hilton

#animal #animal lover #around #being #big

Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#fishing #form #loafing #seems

I fish because I love to . . . because I love the environs where trout are found . . . because I suspect that men are going along this way for the last time, and I for one don’t want to waste the trip . . . and, finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant––and not nearly so much fun. ↗

— Robert Traver

#life #equality

Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called. 
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#aquatic #bizarre #creatures #fins #fish

Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#come #fish #fishing #fly #hesitation