Fishing Nets

Famous quotes containing the words fishing and/or nets:

    I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It is remarkable what a serious business men make of getting their dinners, and how universally shiftlessness and a groveling taste take refuge in a merely ant-like industry. Better go without your dinner, I thought, than be thus everlastingly fishing for it like a cormorant. Of course, viewed from the shore, our pursuits in the country appear not a whit less frivolous.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    And Jesus said to them, “Follow me and I will make you fish for people.” And immediately they left their nets and followed him.
    Bible: New Testament, Mark 1:17,18.