Attributed in Instructions to Young Sportsmen (1824) by Colonel Peter Hawker
“Come fishing with me, said the fisherman to the worm.”
Komm, geh mit angeln, sagte der Fischer zum Wurm.
Mutter Courage to the army recruiter when he tries to recruit her son in Scene 1
Mother Courage and Her Children (1939)
“I do not want to be a fly,
I want to be a worm!”
A Conservative.
In this Our World : Poems (1898)
“In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.”
"A River Runs Through It", p. 1
A River Runs Through It (1976)
Context: In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.
thank you, for those of you who got that...
15° Off Cool (2007)
Why not use the same common sense when fishing for people?
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), Ch. 3.
“The larger the corporation, the greater the risk that you are flying blind.”
Futurewise (1998)
Source: Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury
