Beware of fishing for compliments -- you might come up with a boot.
--Carol Weston
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Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.
--Ann Landers
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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
--Karl Marx
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Caution is a most valuable asset in fishing, especially if you are the fish.
--Unknown
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Dr. Strabismus (Whom God Preserve) of Utrecht is carrying out research work with a view to crossing salmon with mosquitoes. He says it will mean a bite every time for fishermen.
--J. B. Morton
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Fish are not the best authority on water.
--Jane Yolen
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling.
--Andre Gide
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Fish should smell like the tide. Once they smell like fish, it's too late.
--Oscar Gizelt
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Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
--Don Marquis
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Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him of the entire weekend.
--Zenna Schaffer
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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
--Jay Leno
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Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years.
--Charlie Haas
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I fished a lot, dove a lot, boated a lot and made Johnny Walker Red about a quarter of a million dollars richer.
--Dennis Diaz
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I wouldn't say it's cold, but every year Winnipeg's athlete of the year is an ice fisherman.
--Dale Tallon
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It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.
--John Sinor
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It's all right to drink like a fish -- if you drink what a fish drinks.
--Mary Pettibone Poole
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My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.
--Al Capp
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OVERWORK, n. A dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
--Ambrose Bierce
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Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.
--Osbert Sitwell
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Retire to what? I'm a golfer and a fisherman. I've got no place to retire to.
--Julius Boros
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Telling a teen-ager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
--Arnold Glasow
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