Top 168 Fisherman Quotes & Sayings

I'm more of a fisherman as opposed to a scientist perhaps and chasing the whale. But I've had some success.

My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.

My dad was a crab fisherman.

I'm a fly fisherman. I make flies. They're imitations of insects at different stages in their development.

The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish.

My grandad was a fisherman and my dad was a fisherman.

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

When a horse is feeling good, you can sense that, a lot like the tension a fisherman feels on his line when he hooks something.

My father used to be a fisherman, so it always makes me feel close to him when I am there on the water catching my dinner.

On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.

Once upon a time, a fisherman went out to sea. He caught many fish and threw them all into a large bucket on his boat. The fish were not yet dead, so the man decided to ease their suffering by killing them swiftly. While he worked, the cold air made his eyes water. One of the wounded fish saw this and said to the other: "What a kind heart this fisherman has- see how he cries for us." The other fish replied: "Ignore his tears and watch what he is doing with his hands.

A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels.

Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.

The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

I thought without a doubt I would be a fisherman.

Bought the Vegematic and Pocket Fisherman, too, illuminated illustrated history of Life, and Boxcar Willie.

Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.

I'm a fisherman. I've always loved fishing. I grew up fishing for trout.

A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

In Montana, whether you're a farmer, whether you're a fisherman... you know that the climate is changing, and we need to do something about it.

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.

Along a stream that raced and ran Through tangled trees and over stones, That long had heard the pipes o' Pan And shared the joys that nature owns, I met a fellow fisherman, Who greeted me in cheerful tones. . . . . Foes think the bad in him they've guessed And prate about the wrong they scan; Friends that have seen him at his best Believe they know his every plan; I know him better than the rest, I know him as a fisherman.

Fisherman deceives the fish with bait; this action makes the fisherman dishonest! For a fisherman to be honest, he must not put any bait to his fishhook! He who dares to be ideally honest, let him know how hard it is to be such an honest!

When the snipe and the mussel struggle, the fisherman gets the benefit. Ancient Chinese saying

It is good even to be a fisherman in summer and in winter.

When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer.

Fishes and tales And a fisherman's daughter Walks in the rain, She walks to the water To the sea.

The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.

The fish, Even in the fisherman's net, Still carries, The smell of the sea.

Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!

I'm a bit of a dynamite fisherman when it comes to cooking as I don't have the patience, but I am a huge foodie.

My father was a tricycle driver before, then he became a farmer and a fisherman.

I had gone from job to job up in London before 'Fisherman's Friends'.

Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're a musician, you play music.

I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in Alaska. What I loved about it was, you got paid for what you caught.

We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.

Maybe Fate isn't the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it, letting you run the line wild until you are weary enough to be reeled back in.

As a teenage fisherman, I watched and followed terns to find fish. Later, I studied terns for my Ph.D.

I watched 'Dexter,' but it ended in a really weird way. I think it's going to start over again because he's a new character; he's like a fisherman.

Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a worm-fisherman in half, each half will grow into a complete fisherman. For which we should all be eternally grateful.

In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where there's a fisherman's tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn.

The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G.K. Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a 'twitch upon the thread' draws the fish to land.

I'm a passionate, hardcore fisherman. Biggest fish I caught? A 200-pound tarpon.

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast.

A trout fisherman is something that defieth understanding.

One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all times for a celebration.

Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts.

Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.

Can the fish love the fisherman? [Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]

However far I gaze Neither cherry blossoms nor Crimson leaves are in sight. Only a fisherman's hut on the shore In the autumnal evening.

He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fisherman and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.

A poor fisherman who knows the beauties of the misty mornings is much richer than a wealthy man who sleeps till noon in his palace!

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake.