Help With Fishing Quote...

[Gary J. Harris]

For years I have had a quote in my mental locker to the effect that:

"God does not subteract from Man's allotted time,
the time spent fishing."

This was supposedly from the Quran. Cursory searches have failed
to tuen it up there. Anyone know the true provenance of this quote?

Thanks in advance.

Gary J. Harris

[Sam Hobbs]

According to:
http://library.pittstate.edu/staff/susan/quotes.html
God does not charge time spent fishing against a man's allotted life
span. -- American Indian Proverb

and
http://www.lowcountrynow.com/stories/042000/LOClittlejohn.shtml
according to Jim Littlejohn
There is and old saying among those who delight in all things scaly
and piscatorial. It goes, "God will not subtract from man's allotted
time the hours spent in fishing."

Found these via google. This one strikes me as being proverbial. There
are sentiments along these lines (though not so far as a search
reveals anything like these exact words) in Walton's _The Compleat
Angler_. My guess is that proverb or old saying is more accurate than
American Indian Proverb as a source. But I would love to hear from
someone who has something authoritative on this one.

Regards, Sam

[Gary J. Harris]

Thanks, Sam.

Gary

[A manly scent that women like too]

In <3a4a0ec9....@news.mindspring.com>, samh...@mindspring.com wrote:
>
> According to:
> http://library.pittstate.edu/staff/susan/quotes.html
> God does not charge time spent fishing against a man's allotted life
> span. -- American Indian Proverb
>

> Found these via google. This one strikes me as being proverbial.

Right, but most pages identify it as a Babylonian proverb. That
agrees roughly how it was attributed when I first saw it many years ago.
I think it had "the gods" instead of "God".

-:-
"And therefore when I shall see them fallen into a river,
and ready to be drowned, I shall make them a fair long sermon,
de contemptu mundi, et fuga seculi; and when they are stark
dead, shall then go to their aid and succour in fishing after
them."
--Rabelais, _Gargantua_
--
Col. G. L. Sicherman
home: col...@mail.monmouth.com
work: sich...@lucent.com
web: <http://www.monmouth.com/~colonel/>

[Graham Weeks]

In article <92ik32$hum$1...@shell.monmouth.com>, col...@monmouth.com (A

manly scent that women like too) wrote:

> In <3a4a0ec9....@news.mindspring.com>, samh...@mindspring.com wrote:
> >
> > According to:
> > http://library.pittstate.edu/staff/susan/quotes.html
> > God does not charge time spent fishing against a man's allotted life
> > span. -- American Indian Proverb
> >
> > Found these via google. This one strikes me as being proverbial.
>
> Right, but most pages identify it as a Babylonian proverb. That
> agrees roughly how it was attributed when I first saw it many years ago.
> I think it had "the gods" instead of "God".
>

That is how I first heard it.

ObQ

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll
sit in a boat and drink beer.

--
Graham J Weeks
http://www.weeks-g.dircon.co.uk/ My homepage of quotations
http://www.grace.org.uk/churches/ealing.html Our church
http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/Christiansquoting Daily quotes
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