“I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something like this suggests what fishing ought to be about: using the ceremony of our sport and passion to arouse greater reverberations within ourselves.” FeelsPassionSportsWatchesGreaterSeaOughtRiversFishesBoatLakesFishingEthicalCeremonyFrontiersAnglingReverberation Author:Thomas McGuane
“Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.” MeanTwoEyeOpportunityGamesSportsHoursPleasureAnimalBrainMoralOughtTaxesTasksWornToilRelaxationSimplestLimbsDiversionArtisansDaily Tasks Author:Horace Greeley
“The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.” BelieveEndsShowsAmericaGamesSportsForeverGenerationsOughtSucceedGunDevotionMemorableBellsContinentsAlmightyDeclarationFoundingFestivals4th Of JulySolemnIlluminationParadesDeliveranceDeclaration Of IndependenceFounding Fathers ChristianEpochFounding Fathers Of AmericaFounding AmericaChristianity From Founding FathersBonfireIndependence Day PatrioticMost MemorableChristian PatrioticDevotion To GodDependence On God Author:John Adams
“Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.” ThinkingShouldHumansHeartPainSportsParentEmotionCompassionDyingYouthTearsOughtTreatsAffectionSelfishTalesCrueltyEaseHuman LifeEnjoymentAshamedContractsPermitSolitaryDistressWoeInsectsAmusementWrapsWeepingIndulgenceOrphanCottagesWanton Author:Hugh Blair
“We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.” PainSportsOughtTreatsCrueltyDistressInsectsAmusementWantonCuckoos Book:The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works Source: The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works
“I think young people ought to seek that differential experience that is going to knock them off dead center. I was a typical American school boy. I happened to get straight A's and be pretty good in sports. But I had no great vision of what I could be. And I never had any yearning.” PeopleThinkingSchoolYoungSportsVisionBoysHappenedOughtYearningTypicalGreat Vision Author:James A. Michener