Arthur Ransome Quotes

What best friends do so well is they just waste time.

If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish.

Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed

Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.

. . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to come.

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.

There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside the arctic circle, or on a Windsor chair by the side of the River Lea in the so-called temperate zone, or you may squat in a canoe on an equatorial river, with the surrounding atmosphere forty-five percent mosquito, and if you are fishing you will enjoy yourself.

Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

I spend way too much time on Facebook and MySpace to feel too uncomfortable at this. I like to think of the Internet as an effective way to waste time and time.

'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.

Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living on the high seas fishing. Assets generally rose in value during this period, and so it looked like they actually knew what they were doing.

One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to break.

The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.

Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures.

In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.

I taught Brad Pitt how to fly-fish in my swimming pool!

When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!