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    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.

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Three fishers went sailing away to the west,
Away to the west as the sun went down;
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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.

by Charles Kingsley Found in: Fishermen Quotes,
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He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are
swimming.
[Lat., Qui sustinet hamos,
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He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are
swimming.
[Lat., Qui sustinet hamos,
Novit, quae multo pisce natentur aquae.]

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Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net,
leaves it in the water for read more

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.

by Ivan Turgenev Found in: Fishermen Quotes,
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A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.

A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.

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Can the fish love the fisherman?
[Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]

Can the fish love the fisherman?
[Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]

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I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.

I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.

by Izaak Walton Found in: Fishermen Quotes,
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And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of
men.

And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of
men.

by Bible Found in: Fishermen Quotes,
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No man is born an Artist nor an Angler.

No man is born an Artist nor an Angler.

by Izaak Walton Found in: Fishermen Quotes,
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Meek Walton's heavenly memory.

Meek Walton's heavenly memory.

by William Wordsworth Found in: Fishermen Quotes,
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