A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Fishing Quotes

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in...

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in...

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking...

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking...

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

The triumph of hope over experience

The triumph of hope over experience

Your aspirations are your possibilities.

Your aspirations are your possibilities.

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the...

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the...

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes...

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes...

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Beauty lies in the hands of the beerholder

Beauty lies in the hands of the beerholder

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did...

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did...

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some...

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some...

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how...

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how...

As peace is the end of war, it is the end, likewise, of preparations for...

As peace is the end of war, it is the end, likewise, of preparations for...

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which...

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which...

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that...

The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that...