Lakes Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night till old age - to be taken when required, like fish from a private pond.

  Ihara Saikaku

  Taken, Night, Hands

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• I know of the leafy paths that the witches take
  Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool,
  And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake.

  William Butler Yeats

  Halloween, Secret, Depth

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

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• ...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.

  Arnold Gingrich

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Arnold Gingrich (1973). “The Joys of Trout”

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• If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg.

  Theodore Gordon

  Conceited, Sea, Fishing

  Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

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• I used to live in Seattle, as did Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee. I lived near the arboretum. Very often I would take walks late at night by Lake Washington, because I found it very easy to meditate there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Night, Easy

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• I am here at Lake Tahoe and there is magic at 6,000 feet.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Feet, Magic

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• ... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special temple ceremonies. Moreover, a great many distinguished women in history, including several Catholic saints, were also sealed to Joseph Smith in Utah. I saw these astonishing lists in the Latter-day Saint Genealogical Archives in Salt Lake City in 1944.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Utah, Cities, Two

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• The peerless cup afloat
  Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph
  Swims bearing high above her head.

  Robert Browning

  Nymphs, Swim, Lilies

  Robert Browning (1835). “Paracelsus”, p.191

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• As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.

  Ansel Adams

  Spiritual, Emotional, Sea

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• I find those wind turbines around Lake George to be utterly offensive. I think they're just a blight on the landscape.

  Joe Hockey

  Thinking, Wind, Landscape

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• Still I sojourn here, alone and palely loitering, though the sedge is withered from the lake and no birds sing. For I sent the bath towel to the wash this morning, and omitted to put out another. I have no towel.

  Rose Macaulay

  Morning, Bird, Towels

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.102, A&C Black

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• Lo! while we are gazing, in swifter haste
  Stream down the snows, till the air is white,
  As, myriads by myriads madly chased,
  They fling themselves from their shadowy height.
  The fair, frail creatures of middle sky,
  What speed they make, with their grave so nigh;
  Flake after flake,
  To lie in the dark and silent lake!

  William C. Bryant

  Lying, Dark, Air

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• Stand here by my side and turn, I pray,
  On the lake below thy gentle eyes;
  The clouds hang over it, heavy and gray,
  And dark and silent the water lies;
  And out of that frozen mist the snow
  In wavering flakes begins to flow;
  Flake after flake,
  They sink in the dark and silent lake.

  William C. Bryant

  Lying, Eye, Dark

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• I'm weary of my lonely but
  And of its blasted tree,
  The very lake is like my lot,
  So silent constantly--
  I've liv'd amid the forest gloom
  Until I almost fear--
  When will the thrilling voices come
  My spirit thirsts to hear?

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Country, Lonely, Voice

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• Absolutely nothing was happening in my marriage. I nicknamed my waterbed, Lake Placid!

  Phyllis Diller

  Placid, Absolutely Nothing, Happenings

  Phyllis Diller (1981). “The joys of aging--and how to avoid them: can sex keep you young? And other silly questions”, Doubleday Books

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• Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

  John Sterling

  Water, Speech, Pumps

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.155

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• It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.

  Dorothy Parker

  Simple, Effort, Liberty

  New Yorker, 25 Feb. 1928

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• Scots are born exiles, and Scotland the perfect country to be exiled from. Do not imagine that I am running down Scotland. Far from it. ... No, what I mean is that Scotland's beauties, though undeniable, are obvious ones, easy to carry in the heart, easy even to describe to the benighted members of less fortunate races. Lakes, islands and mountains, heather and rowan, broad straths and narrow glens - these are jewels easily worn in the memory.

  Jan Struther

  Running, Country, Memories

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• Once allow your soul to be disturbed by any violent emotion and, like the waters of a tempest-tossed lake, it can no longer reflect the divine Image.

  Monica Baldwin

  Peace, Water, Soul

  Monica Baldwin (1949). “I leap over the wall: a return to the world after twenty-eight years in a convent”, Hamish Hamilton

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• Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Believe, Meals, Soup

  Elsie De Wolfe (1974). “After all”, Ayer Co Pub

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• To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, stand upon the immutable and everlasting principles of equal and exact justice. The days of unrequited labor are numbered with the past. Fugitive slave laws are only remembered as relics of that barbarism which John Wesley pronounced "the sum of all villainies," and whose knowledge of its blighting effects was matured by his travels in Georgia and the Carolinas.

  Horace Mann

  Past, Law, Justice

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• Detroit is really the most perfectly laid out city one could imagine, and such an enchanting park and lake, - infinitely better than any town I know in Europe. It ought to be a paradise in about fifty years when it has all matured.

  Elinor Glyn

  Years, Europe, Cities

  Elinor Glyn (2013). “The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection”, p.313, eBookIt.com

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• When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.

  Matsuo Basho

  Wind, Water, Mountain

  Matsuo Basho (2003). “A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen”, p.4, Counterpoint Press

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