Rivers Quotes - Page 23

• Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Lakes, Sea

  Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945”

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

  Izaak Walton

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  47 Copy quote

• If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly.

  Jack Ohman

  Reading, Lakes, Glasses

  47 Copy quote

• Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.

  Jim Harrison

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Jim Harrison (2016). “Just Before Dark”, p.35, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them.

  John Gierach

  Mistake, Lakes, Sea

  "Fly-fishing the High Country". Book by John Gierach, 1984.

  65 Copy quote

  Show source

• I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't.

  John Gierach

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

  John Gierach (2010). “At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

  68 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.

  John D. Voelker

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  48 Copy quote

• Most fishermen use the double haul to throw their casting mistakes further.

  Lefty Kreh

  Mistake, Lakes, Sea

  Lefty Kreh (1991). “Longer Fly Casting”, Lyons Press

  49 Copy quote

  Show source

• Never leave fish to find fish.

  Moses

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  33 Copy quote

• There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Patrick F. McManus (1984). “Never Sniff A Gift Fish”, p.157, Macmillan

  78 Copy quote

  Show source

• Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

  Paul Schullery

  Jobs, Lakes, Sea

  Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

  48 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has ever improved on that statement.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  16 Copy quote

• Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Men, Lakes, Sea

  Orlando Aloysius Battista (1981). “Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary”, Perigee

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

  John D. Voelker

  Regret, Lakes, Sea

  9 Copy quote

• Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Men, Lakes, Sea

  49 Copy quote

• The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.

  Theodore Gordon

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters-where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies.

  Horace Mann

  Fall, Yield, Law

  Horace Mann (1861). “Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College”, p.184

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• India then being four-sided in plan, the side which looks to the Orient and that to the South, the Great Sea compasseth; that towards the Arctic is divided by the mountain chain of Hmdus from Scythia, inhabited by that tribe of Scythians who are called Sakai; and on the fourth side, turned towards the West, the Indus marks the boundary, the biggest or nearly so of all rivers after the Nile.

  Megasthenes

  Sea, Mountain, India

  12 Copy quote

• They're going to clear cut your best thoughts for the sake of profit unless you learn to resist, because the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked!

  Utah Phillips

  Path, Resistance, Causes

  "The Past Didn't Go Anywhere". Album by Utah Phillips and Ani DiFranco, October 15, 1996.

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Artist, Trying, Next

  4 Copy quote

• The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.

  Wally Lamb

  Memories, Understanding, May

  Wally Lamb (1998). “I Know This Much Is True”, p.397, Cambridge University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking - one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.

  Edward Hoagland

  Sports, Journey, Hiking

  16 Copy quote

• Listen to the air.
  You can hear it, feel it,
  smell it, taste it.
  Woniya wakan, the holy air,
  which renews all by its breath.
  Woniya wakan, spirit, life, breath, renewal,
  it means all that.
  We sit together, don’t touch,
  but something is there,
  we feel it between us
  as a presence.
  A good way to start thinking
  about nature
  is to talk to it,
  talk to the rivers, to the lakes,
  to the winds,
  as to our relatives.

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Mean, Thinking, Smell

  49 Copy quote

• The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself.

  Aberjhani

  Dream, Bridges, Wings

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.3, Lulu.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Like a stone on the surface of a still river
  Driving the ripples on forever
  Redemption rips through the surface of time
  In the cry of a tiny babe.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Rip, Forever, Redemption

  Song: Cry Of A Tiny Babe, Album: Nothing But a Burning Light

  4 Copy quote

  Show source