"Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into
philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent
tackle on a
philosopher's salary." - Patrick F. McManus
"I've got three things I wanted most: a Churchill gun, a Hardy rod and a beautiful wife" Macdonald Hastings, journalist and author, UK "How do I define history?" asks Rudge, in The History Boys. "It's just one ******* thing after another" - Alan Bennett "My ambition is to have no ambition." - George Harrison "There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look" - Matisse There is no such thing as a free mule "I write teeth whitening chants for holistic orthodontists" - with a nod to Eoin Colfer '15 minutes' has been replaced by eternity, provided you keep hitting the refresh button Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one. - Voltaire He who dies with most toys, wins. I'm famed for my modesty! A writer is someone for whom "writing is harder than it is for ordinary people."
Thomas Mann
"Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof." AUGUSTUS WILLIAM HARE English clergyman and writer (1792 - 1834) Any man who judges success by the accumulation of wealth, is poor. "I thank you, and here is a hearty draught to you, and to all the brothers of the angle wheresoever they be," Izaak Walton "Surely luck was with me today, Sir, I left my heart in the stream, My body is weary tonight, Sir, But I have lived the stuff of my dreams." E.R.Hewitt.
"Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue." - Rochefoucauld
"I am not against golf, since I rather suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering trout." - Paul O'Neil Q. After spending considerable time and money learning to tie flies, you collect a magnificent assortment of natural blue dun and other high-grade hackle, furs for dubbing, fine-wire hooks and other materials. Shortly after you install a fully-equipped fly-tying table in your den, your six-year-old son develops a violent allergy to feathers. What action do you take? A. Frankly, you may not get full credit on this if you suggest putting the boy up for adoption. There are several good boarding schools that accept boys of this age, or you could send him to live with relatives. Adoption is a lengthy, bothersome process. Ed Zern
"I want fish from fishing, but I want a great big deal more than that, and getting it is not always dependent upon catching fish." Roderick Haig-Brown Build me a cabin in Utah, Marry me a wife, catch rainbow trout, Have a bunch of kids who call me "Pa," That must be what it's all about, That must be what it's all about. Bob Dylan There are three kinds of people in this world. Those who can count and those who can't. "One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing." Norman Maclean
"It is you and clean, flowing water. It is you, inquisitive, in a
wild world that is older than man, seeking greater understanding and
finding not only
an endless interest but a tranquility that comes, most of the time, to
all nature´s wild creatures..." Lee Wulff
Bertolt Brecht - "Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." "May you live every day of your life." "We play mind games with fish . . . . and lose . . (?)" "All the tackle in the world won't give a fisherman a good time if he's not built for it." Peterson No one told me about lack of communication . . . . "Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration." - Izaac Walton "If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing rods" "Those that are dead are not dead, they're still living in my head" - Chris Martin "The best time to go fishing is when you can get away". - Robert Traver "Calling Fly Fishing a hobby is like calling Brain Surgery a job." "There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot." - Steven Wright
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