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Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion.
You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.
I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.
Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.
The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.
We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.
There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon
There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.
Her hatred glittered irresistibly. I could see it, the jewel, it was sapphire, it was the cold lakes of Norway.
There are times when salmon play no part in the proceedings of a day that is obstensibly spent in their pursuit.
Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . .
The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).
The truth is, fish have very little sex life. If you have ever tried to make love under water, you will know why.
Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.
The mind should turn into a serene and stormless lake, where is reflected the complete panorama of the starry sky.
The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.
I want to qualify for the Tour Championship. Being a Georgia Tech grad, playing at East Lake would feel like home.
The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.
I am firmly convinced that the ideal combination leading to a happy life is to have the time to both fish and read.
Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.
When your consciousness becomes a still mirror, a still lake, a silent reservoir of energy, God is reflected in it.
Just as the Salt Lake Temple took 40 years to build, stone by stone, you are building a virtuous life, step by step.
What pretty bright trout there are in this bold rock creek! It would full be called a river in England, and so it is!
The landscape in Ireland is just - I've never been in such a beautiful place with the lakes and ocean and everything.
Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.
I find those wind turbines around Lake George to be utterly offensive. I think they're just a blight on the landscape.
He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.
Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.
The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.
About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.
Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
Aquarium fishes even if they only imagine going to a lake, the windows of that aquarium will become thinner than before.
I grew up in a village of about 800 people surrounded by lakes and woods, and I think it's made a definite impact on me.
YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.
The worst part of losing good fish is that you cannot release them. They tailwalk across the back of your mind for days.
Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.
It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.
I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if I crash into a lake?
Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures.
I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.
I think my heart breaks daily living in Salt Lake City, Utah. But I still love it. And that is the richness, the texture.
There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces.
As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.
When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.