Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.

There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart

Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.

I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.

I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except that we like it and it makes us think and feel.

A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.

... To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take.

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

Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

FAITH, is all i have, and all i need,

I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.

The Celtic fans are very special and the club and players can be very proud of them. They are the best I have ever heard.

They want to criticize you, let them criticize and do not worry. Just be transparent with your people and tell them this is the reality.

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.

Przybilla can't guard me when I'm 27, 37 or 47.

I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.