“Good things come to those who initiate.”
Source: Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World
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Fly Fishing Quotes
Source: Hemingway on Fishing
Source: Fishing for Fun - and to Wash Your Soul
Source: Addresses Upon the American Road
“Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.”
“Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.”
Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.”
“There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.”
Source: A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
Source: A River Runs Through It
Source: Great Hours in Sport
Source: A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.”
Source: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
“A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."”
“The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.”
Source: Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945
“Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.”
Source: The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing
“There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.”
“In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.”
“All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.”
Source: A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
“Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.”
Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs
“A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.”
“Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts.”
“Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.”
Source: Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945
Source: Fishing for Fun - and to Wash Your Soul
“No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.”
“Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.”
Source: Just Before Dark
“Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.”
Source: Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury