Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.
. . . water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.
Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.
A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.
Over the years, whenever I've felt that little twinkle in the hairs on the back of my neck. , as I encountered an original thought or observation in a fishing book, I've turned the corner of the page down.
The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.
I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.
The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the beginning of hope, in itself dashed all hopes of magical solutions. It told workers that progress would be made stepwise, at great effort, and that a persistent, unremitting care would have to be paid to a discipline of cleanliness. So it is with software engineering today.
The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.
And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.
Renewal and revival often begin when young people take a stand for God.