Language is the dress of thought.
If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg.
It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.
The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted air.
The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.
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.
The pool was but a stone's throw from the house, and I arrived there in a few minutes, only to find a boy disturbing the water by dredging it with a worm. Him I lured away with a cake of chocolate. . . . Every day I see the head of the largest trout I ever hooked, but did not land.
Office of the Vice President. . . The Council on Competativeness.
Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.
When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?
Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me.