“Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.” MadeEnoughSeemsFormLyingLostLeftLinesForeverImagineBasesFundamentalsFishesConservativeStupidityMortalsFishingWetDoomedTormentLeft OutHades Author:Thomas A. Edison
“The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait, Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.” KnowsMenWellsLyingDesireWaitingFireIgnoranceFishesFoeBaitMothsMesh Author:Bhartrhari
“Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket -- not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing.” PeopleWayEnoughMomentsHandsLyingMoneyRootsFishesSoilShakesChickensBasketsHackedBeets Book:Tales of Neveryeon Source: Tales of Neveryeon
“I told a lie the other day. I said that I'd caught a 'bunch' of trout. What I should have said is that I caught a little trout that I named Bunch. There, I?ve confessed and now I feel much better.” FeelsShouldLittlesSaidLyingSeaRiversShould HaveCaughtFishesBunchBoatLakesFishingTrout Author:Jimmy Moore
“Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in a rocky stream, casting steadily, and the indolence of lying quietly in the sun waiting for a bobber to go under there is a type of angling to suit everyone's mood and everyone's pocketbook. Fishing is fishing wherever it is found... Angling's problems are never solved.” LongHardProblemLyingFoundWaitingHoursEffortSunSeaTypeActivityRiversFishesCurrentsWideMoodBoatSuitsRangeStreamsLakesFishingCastingIndolenceAnglingLong HoursPocketbooks Book:The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures Source: The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures
“These are the technicalities. The jetes and pirouettes.. but the music of the dance lies in the subtle signals between the steps: the fish's delivery of them, the fisherman's read of and response to them, which, if she's good, must be near telepathic. That's what takes a death-grip on your concentration. That's why your mind empties of all trivia, which, when playing a fish, includes just about everything else you could possible think of. That is what anglers live for.” IfsThinkingMindLyingStepsSeaRiversResponseFishesBoatLakesSubtleFishingConcentrationSignalsDeliveryFishermanTriviaAnglersTechnicalitiesPirouettes Author:Jessica Maxwell
“The truth is that trout fishermen scheme and lie and toss in their sleep. They dream of great dripping trout, shapely and elusive as mermaids, and arise cranky and haggard from their fantasies. They are moody and neglectful and all of them a little daft. Moreover they are inclined to drink too much.” LittlesDreamLyingSleepFantasyToo MuchSeaDrinkTruth IsRiversFishesAriseBoatLakesFishingSchemesElusiveFishermanTossMermaidTroutDrippingMoodyCrankyDaftHaggard Author:John D. Voelker
“The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's a home.” MenMayHomeLyingSeaLandBirdBraveryBraveDepthFishesBlowBreezeBrave Man Author:Ovid