Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.
Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us.
Angling is an Art. . . an art worth your learning.
I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.
It [angling] deserves commendations;. . . it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.
The young man who closes the door behind him, who draws the curtains, and there in silence pleads with God for help, should first pour out his soul in gratitude for health, for friends, for loved ones, for the gospel, for the manifestations of God's existence. He should first count his many blessings and name them one by one.
Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.
Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.
TV kind of makes you seem a little different and I always remember that and I was always like 'Man, I wish Sting would've been as cool as I was back in the day', he was an asshole.