Lakes Quotes - Page 27

• So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air.

  Rex Hunt

  Air, Sea, Fishing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

  Stephen Leacock

  Sea, Fishing, Names

  Stephen Leacock (2010). “My Remarkable Uncle”, p.93, New Canadian Library

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• I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.

  Perry Como

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it can. That's enough. Thick line. Straight toward you. - Look.

  Rolf Jacobsen

  Book, Moon, Night

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• When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Reflection, Perfect, Meditation

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• As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of mind) disturb the peace of the mind. The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Self, Water, Mind

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• Later as the day cools and they have gone in, the cry of the corncrake will carry across those same fields and over the lake to the blue-hazed mountain, such a lonely evening sound to it, like the lonely evening sound of the mothers, saying it is not our fault that we weep so, it is nature's fault that makes us first full, then empty.

  Edna O'Brien

  Beautiful, Mother, Lonely

  Edna O'Brien (2007). “The Light of Evening”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

  Izaak Walton

  Artist, Men, Sea

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) 'Epistle to the Reader'

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• I like speed, so I like taking the jet skis out and hitting the water, or hitting the lake. In the winter, unfortunately, I used to ski a lot but I haven't been able to ski in the past few years because thank God I've been working, so that's a good reason not to.

  Laz Alonso

  Winter, Past, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn, when I found out I had conceived. My delivery was not easy - they call it 'labor,' not 'a vacation!' - but I was incredibly grateful that I did it that way.

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Grateful, Vacation, Way

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• In my years of public service at both the federal and state levels, I have had the privilege of representing most of the communities that make up Congressional District 21, including Hialeah, Westchester, Doral, Kendall, Miami Lakes, Hialeah Gardens, Medley and Palmetto Bay.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  Garden, Years, Community

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• Perhaps the time has come to formulate a moral code which would govern our relations with the great creatures of the sea as well as with those on dry land. That this will come to pass is my dear wish.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Sea, Fishing, Land

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• If little fish get eaten by bigger fish, and bigger fish get eaten by bigger fish... what happens when there are no little fish? The world's populations of little fish are being harvested to make catfood!? This nonsense has to stop. Feed a fish a cat a day!

  Tony Bishop

  Cat, Sea, Fishing

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• God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may see all Creatures; Even all that on the earth is to be found,! As if the world were in deep waters drowned.

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Deep Water, Sea, Fishing

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• An excellent angler, and now with God.

  Izaak Walton

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 4

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• ...But some of the ideas are ridiculous. Such as matching the hatch. Of course there are times when you have a fly as alike as possible to the flies on the water. But casting and accuracy and how you present your fly and how fast it gets there and how fast it swims are all more important than matching the hatch.

  Charles Ritz

  Sea, Fishing, Ideas

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• Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

  Washington Irving

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Washington Irving (1829). “The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...”

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• As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler.

  George Orwell

  War, Thinking, Sea

  George Orwell (1969). “Coming Up for Air”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.

  Ovid

  Art, Boys, Sea

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• Fishing, if I a fisher may protest, Of pleasures is the sweetest of sports the best, Of exercises the most excellent, Of recreations the most innocent. But now the sport is marred, and why you ask? Fishes decrease, and fishers multiply.

  Thomas Bastard

  Sports, Exercise, Sea

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• It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture two animals at once for our amusement.

  Thomas Young

  Animal, Sea, Fishing

  Thomas Young (1798). “An Essay on Humanity to Animals”, p.90

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• In the name of sense, man, if God made fish to be eaten, what difference does it make if I enjoy the killing of them before I eat them? You would have none but a fisherman by trade do it, and then you would have him utter a sigh, a prayer, and a pious ejaculation at each cod or haddock that he killed.

  William Cowper Prime

  Prayer, Men, Differences

  William Cowper Prime (1876). “I Go A-fishing”, p.266

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• Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

  Harold Russell

  Thoughtful, Sea, Fishing

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• To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes.

  Harold Russell

  Boys, Sea, Fishing

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• It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.

  Michael Faraday

  Weed, Sea, Fishing

  Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.3, Cambridge University Press

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