Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.

Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.

I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.

There is no subsititue for fishing sense, and if a man doesn't have it, verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to transport sandwiches and beer

Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.

Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed

The best time to go fishing is when you can get away.

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

The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.

One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to break.

Movement is life!

Don't die a pauper, don't die a commoner and a weakling.

I can't make eye contact when people sing 'Happy Birthday' to me.

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

Why should you care if you have nothing to hide?

If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God.

The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.

The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle.