Mark Twain Fishing Quotations

No better liar had there been in these parts as that ball player with hams for arms unless he be a man with a fishing rod and tackle box in his hands and his feet wet as rain.

In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.