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  • To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of sun on blue water. It brings meekness and inspiration from the decency of nature, charity toward tackle-makers, patience toward fish, a mockery of profits and egos, a quieting of hate, a rejoicing that you do not have to decide a darned thing until next week. And it is discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

    Hate   Inspiration   Men  
    Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945”
  • If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg.

    Conceited   Lakes   Sea  
    Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”
  • I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling.

    Lakes   Wind   Sea  
    Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.907, Delphi Classics
  • There was a code, and though it was mostly unspoken, I absorbed it early on. You always put all the trout back in the water alive except for a few to eat. You didn't count your trout or call attention to their size or weight. You took time to watch and enjoy seeing your partners catch trout.

    Fishing   Water   Size  
    Howard Frank Mosher (2014). “North Country: A Personal Journey Through the Borderland”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

    Art   Father   Fishing  
    Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.4, University of Chicago Press
  • The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near.

  • The trout that seem to stick in my memory the finest aren't the big ones, and maybe it's because I have't visited all the corners of the globe, but my most unforgettable trout all lived close to home. In fact, when I take out my pouch of trout memories and spill them all on the table, it seems that the smaller ones shine the brightest.

    Memories   Home   Lakes  
  • Write. Remember, people may keep you (or me) from being a published author but no one can stop you from being a writer. All you have to do is write. And keep writing. While you’re working at a career, while you’re raising children, while you’re trout fishing--keep writing! No one can stop you but you.

  • The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.

    Art   Rivers   Lakes  
    Robert Burns (2010). “The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns”, p.577, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the same reason, golf, fishing, and shooting, and I do because first, they take you into the fields. There is mild exercise, the kind that an older individual probably should have. And on top of it, it induces you to take at any one time 2 or 3 hours, if you can, where you are thinking of the bird or that ball or the wily trout. Now, to my mind it is a very healthful, beneficial kind of thing, and I do it whenever I get a chance, as you well know.

    Sports   Exercise   Golf  
  • See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

    Men   Play   Political  
    Oliver Wendell Holmes (1862). “The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes”, p.248
  • A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.

    Lakes   Sea   Fishing  
  • On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.

    Food   Aunt   Virginia  
    "Coming to a Freezer Near You: Pickle Pops" by Elena Ferretti, www.foxnews.com. March 1, 2010.
  • Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as well as among the most frustrating and humiliating.

    Men   Lakes   Sea  
  • Flyfishing does have its social aspects - on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social - but esentially it's a solitary, contemplative sport. People are left alone with themselves in beautiful surroundings to try to accomplish something that seems to have genuine value.

    Beautiful   Sports   Sea  
  • A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

  • There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.

    Fishing   Serenity   Mind  
  • When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!

    Powerful   Sea   Fishing  
    John Gay, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”
  • Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.

    John Gierach (2010). “Even Brook Trout Get The Blues”, p.51, Simon and Schuster
  • The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.

  • The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?

    Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult
  • Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

    Trout   Example   Milk  
    Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Non-slipcased Edition) (Vol. 1) (The Annotated Books)”, p.305, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

    Learning   Math   Fishing  
    'The Compleat Angler' (1653) 'Epistle to the Reader'
  • I love cooking all different things, so any form of meat, fish, anything else. I do have a really strict diet, but it's all protein and veg basically. When you are on a diet like that you have to get inventive, so you have to be willing to try any different fish that's out there. Probably a favourite of mine is some baked trout fillets, on a salad.

    Cooking   Trying   Meat  
  • Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.

  • The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen.

    Failure   Men   Fishing  
  • Wherever the trout are, it's beautiful.

  • In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond... If we don't give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked... As artists, we must learn to be self nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them - to re-stock the trout pond, so to speak.

  • The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of the diseases were all in the fourth dimension, and three-dimensional Earthling doctors couldn't see those causes at all, or even imagine them.

    Book   Doctors   People  
    KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”
  • Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.

    Spring   Heart   Water  
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