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 Of all the world's enjoyments
 That ever valued were,
  There's none of our employments
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 Of all the world's enjoyments
 That ever valued were,
  There's none of our employments
   With fishing can compare.
   - Thomas Durfee (or D'Urfey), 
A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other
A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other
 A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire,
 A winder and barrel, will help thy desire
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 A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire,
 A winder and barrel, will help thy desire
  In killing a Pike; but the forked stick,
   With a slit and a bladder,--and that other fine trick,
    Which our artists call snap, with a goose or a duck,--
     Will kill two for one, if you have any luck;
      The gentry of Shropshire do merrily smile,
       To see a goose and a belt the fish to beguile;
        When a Pike suns himselfe and a-frogging doth go,
         The two-inched hook is better, I know,
          Than the ord'nary snaring: but still I must cry,
           When the Pike is at home, minde the cookery. 
To fish in troubled waters.
To fish in troubled waters.
The end of fishing is not angling, but catching.
The end of fishing is not angling, but catching.
 Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ;
 His wife he cabined with him and his boy,
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 Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ;
 His wife he cabined with him and his boy,
  And seemed that life laborious to enjoy. 
Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime
Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime
 La ligne, avec sa canne, est un long instrument,
 Dont le plus mince bout tient un petit reptile,
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 La ligne, avec sa canne, est un long instrument,
 Dont le plus mince bout tient un petit reptile,
  Et dont l'autre est tenu par un grand imbecile. 
 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, 
We also go with thee. They read more 
 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, 
We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship 
immediately; and that night they caught nothing.