| Author |
Quotes |
| Bob Dylan | Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers. |
| Charles Kingsley | Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town. |
| Ivan Turgenev | 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 fishermen will snatch it out in his own good time. |
| Izaak Walton | No man is born an Artist nor an Angler. |
| Izaak Walton | Oh the brave Fisher's life, It is the best of any, 'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife, And 'tis belov'd of many: Other joys Are but toys; Only this Lawful is, For our skill Breeds no ill, But content and pleasure. |
| Izaak Walton | I am, Sir, a brother of the angle. |
| Izaak Walton | This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men. |
| John Chalkhill | Oh, the gallant fisher's life, It is the best of any 'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife, And 'tis beloved of many. |
| Marcus Valerius Martialndex | Can the fish love the fisherman? |
| Marcus Valerius Martialndex | A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard. |
| Ovidius Naso | He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming. |
| William Wordsworth | Meek Walton's heavenly memory. |
| Unattributed Author | Never a fishermen need there be If fishes could hear as well as see. |
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