Lakes Quotes

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

Smile / to see the lake / lay / the still sky / And / out for an easy / make / the dragonfly.

Accurately recalling an entire day of fishing is like trying to push smoke back down a chimney, so you settle on these specific moments.

Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.

Better try to stay wide awake, or you might end up found dead by the lake.

When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.

I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, "There is water in the carburetor." I said, "Where's the car?" She said, "In the lake."

So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air.

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.

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

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.

Never leave fish to find fish.

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

We've all got troubles. We all make mistakes. But let's not take a little river turn it into lake.

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

Floating in a lake, lying in a hammock, playing a bit of Scrabble...that's what I'm in need of.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.

Show me a man who fishes in winter, and I'll show you a fanatic. Actually, I'll get the better of the deal, because for sheer spectacle a fanatic doesn't hold a candle to a man who fishes in winter

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity me. Even the open, transparent lake has its unknown depths, which no divers know.

... 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.

Inside the calm minds, great ideas swim serenely like the morning geese of the misty lakes!

You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.

Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.

It's just that the longer I fish, the more I long for simplification and lightness.

No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.

Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion.

I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places.

I really enjoy sailing on Lake Geneva because I can just look at the shore and see my wife having a barbecue with the kids.

I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.

Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances.

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away

It is therefore essential to let the 'heart spirit' settle like calm water. Then it becomes a tranquil lake in which the sky is reflected, in which the face of Christ can be seen.

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

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

Fish and visitors stink in three days.

When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!

My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!

I cannot stand people who disagree with me on the issue of Roe v. Wade... which I believe is about the proper way to cross a lake.

In Lake Wobegon, we don't forget mistakes.

A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.

I am here at Lake Tahoe and there is magic at 6,000 feet.

I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them.

The mind should turn into a serene and stormless lake, where is reflected the complete panorama of the starry sky.

We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.