Religion
"In my family, there was no clear division between religion and fly fishing."
~by Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It, 1976~
Business
"If fishing is interfering with your business, give up your business."
~by Alfred W. Miller~
Art?
"O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?"
~by Isaak Walton~
Fishing Poles
"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles."
~by Doug Larsen~
Listen
"Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout."
~Irish proverb~
Serenity
"There is certainly something in fishing that tends to produce a gentleness of spirit, a pure serenity of mind."
~by Washington Irving~
The Romance–not shared
"All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish."
~by Harold F. Blaisdell, The Philosophical Fisherman, 1969~
Church
"Some go to church and think about fishing, others go fishing and think about God."
~by Tony Blake~
High Church
"If fishing is like religion, then fly-fishing is high church."
~by Tom Brokaw~
Tickling
"Here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling."
~by William Shakespeare, Twelfth Nigh,t Act II, Scene ,1 Line 2~
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