War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.
. . . there are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream.
The truth is, fish have very little sex life. If you have ever tried to make love under water, you will know why.
I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately as possible, and then, when telling about it, to improve these figures by roughly a fifth, or twenty percent. I do this mainly because most people believe all fishermen exaggerate by at least twenty percent, and so I allow for the discounting my audience is almost certain to apply.
Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.
The best time to go fishing is when you can
I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.
The meeting of two eternities, the past and future. . . . is precisely the present moment.
To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.
Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction.
The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, ‘Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?