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  • The meditative angler is not exempt from sensational periods. There are times when all the uncertainty of his chosen pursuit seems to condense itself into one big chance, and stand out before him like a salmon on the top wave of a rapid. He sees his luck hangs by a single strand of gut, and he cannot tell whether it will hold or break. This is the thrilling moment and he never forgets it.

    Sea   Fishing   Rivers  
    Henry Van Dyke (2015). “Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things”, p.23, Read Books Ltd
  • When a party can't think of anything else they always fall back on Lower Taxes. It has a magic sound to a voter, just like Fairyland is spoken of and dreamed of by all children. But no child has ever seen it; neither has any voter ever lived to see the day when his taxes were lowered. Presidents have been promising lower taxes since Washington crossed the Delaware by hand in a row boat. But our taxes have gotten bigger and their boats have gotten larger until now the President crosses the Delaware in his private yacht.

    Children   Fall   Party  
    Will Rogers (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”
  • Unless you've also had some experience dragging around a boat trailer, [topping off the gas tank] may not sound important. But trailer driver's know: a gas stop can be a traumatic experience. You need enough clearance on every possible side. You can't cut the turn too sharp or you'll clip the gas pump. Getting back on the freeway can be as challenging as sending a man to the moon.

    Cutting   Moon   Men  
  • It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat-loads of them; but I never met a man yet, on land, who had ever known at all what it was to be sea-sick. Where the thousands upon thousands of bad sailors that swarm in every ship hide themselves when they are on land is a mystery.

    Men   Sea   Land  
    Jerome K. Jerome “Annotated Three Men in a Boat with English Grammar Exercises: by Jerome K. Jerome (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC
  • I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.

    Air   Bridges   House  
    John House, Claude Monet (1986). “Monet: Nature Into Art”
  • For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.

    Office   Nautical   Boat  
    1878 An Inland Voyage,'The Royal Sport Nautique'.
  • Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

    Rip   Mean   Intelligence  
  • There is a push and a pull almost like an isometric stretch. Our literal flexibility and our physical, psychological and spiritual practices are more important now than ever to balance the boat.

  • I'm afraid a boat so small would sink with the weight of all my sorrow.

  • My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

    Philosophy   Way   Boat  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.

  • Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

    Lakes   Sea   Fishing  
    Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.743, Library of America
  • Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.

    Christian   Jesus   Peace  
    John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.116, Harper Collins
  • Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or indeed one half our duties. The only safe and sensible plan is to make other things give way to the essentials, and the first of these is fly fishing.

    Past   Sea   Fishing  
    Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”
  • Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire.

    Rivers   Lakes   Sea  
  • To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

    Regret   Lakes   Sea  
  • The fly angler who says they have never, ever fallen while wading , is either a pathogenic liar, or has never been fly-fishing.

    Liars   Rivers   Lakes  
  • A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks

    Men   Thinking   Lakes  
  • When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!

    Distance   Water   Calm  
  • Pete and Repeat are in a boat, Pete jumps out who's left in the boat?

    Boat   Repeats   Left  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

    Lakes   Sea   Fishing  
    Wendell Berry (2004). “Citizenship Papers: Essays”, p.157, Counterpoint Press
  • Many will say, "I can find God without the help of the Bible, or church, or minister." Very well. Do so if you can. The Ferry Company would feel no jealousy of a man who should prefer to swim to New York. Let him do so if he is able, and we will talk about it on the other shore; but probably trying to swim would be the thing that would bring him quickest to the boat. So God would have no jealousy of a man's going to heaven without the aid of the Bible, or church, or minister; but let him try to do so, and it will be the surest way to bring him back to them for assistance.

    Bible   New York   Men  
    "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.
  • There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

    Life   Ocean   Army  
    Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.7, McClure, Phillips & Company
  • There was something refreshingly and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man's canoe, reminding me of Charlevoix and Canadian Voyageurs. The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat, a fur-trader's boat.

    Men   White Man   Names  
    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods (Annotated Edition)”, p.7, Jazzybee Verlag
  • She looked around. They had drifted far away from the bank of the canal. "Are we stealing this boat?" "Stealing' is such an ugly word," he mused. "What do you want to call it?" He picked her up and swung her around before putting her down. "An extreme case of window-shopping.

    Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.228, Simon and Schuster
  • In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.

    War   Mean   Science  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.622, Modern Library
  • This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!

    People   Noses   Internet  
  • 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”
  • There are two distinct visits to tackle-shops, the visit to buy tackle and the visit which may be described as Platonic when, being for some reason unable to fish, we look for an excuse to go in, and waste the tackle dealer's time.

    Sea   Fishing   Two  
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