No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler. -- Izaak Walton
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Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has ever improved on that statement. -- John Gierach
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“My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.”
“It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed.”
“The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.”
“Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.”
“If what we are doing with our anger is not achieving the desired result, it would seem logical to try something different.”
“The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.”
Source : "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893) See Bancroft 1; Robert P. Porter 1; Turner 1
“People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.”
“Water, we go to you dirty and rise from you clean.”
“My advice to actresses is don't worry about your looks. The very thing that makes you unhappy in your appearance may be the one thing to make you a star.”
“I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.”
