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Here's a pretty kettle of fish!—W. S. GILBERT, Iolanthe
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Fish dinners will make a man spring like a flea.—THOMAS JORDAN
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Fish are not to be caught with a bird-call.—Proverb
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It is good fish, if it were but caught.—Proverb
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It is good fishing in troubled waters.—Proverb
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Still he fisheth that catcheth one.—Proverb
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A hook's well lost to catch a salmon.—Proverb
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It's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives.—SCOTT, The Antiquary
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Bait the hook well; this fish will bite.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
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The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish
Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,
And greedily devour the treacherous bait.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
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3rd Fisherman. Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.
1st Fisherman. Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little Ones.—SHAKESPEARE, Pericles
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Oh, the gallant fisher's life!
It is the best of any;
'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife,
And 'tis beloved by many.—IZAAK WALTON, The Angler
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We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries: "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did;" and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.—IZAAK WALTON, The Compleat Angler
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An excellent angler, and now with God.—IZAAK WALTON, The Compleat Angler
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You will find angling to be like, the virtue of humility, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it.—IZAAK WALTON, The Compleat Angler
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Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.—IZAAK WALTON, The Compleat Angler
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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.—IZAAK WALTON, The Compleat Angler
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Angling may be said to be like the mathematics that it can never be
fully learnt.—IZAAK WALTON, The Compleat Angler
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I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing.—IZAAK WALTON, The Compleat Angler
