The best time to go fishing is when you can

Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.

I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.

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.

People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen are called crackpot fishermen. This is confusing.

...there are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream.

Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a worm-fisherman in half, each half will grow into a complete fisherman. For which we should all be eternally grateful.

Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off.

The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells

Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . .

... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.

The people that surround us mirror who we are.

Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.

When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape.

To be beat is to be at the bottom of your personality, looking up.

I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

I think they must mix blood, otherwise the human race is bound to degenerate. Mixing blood is marvelous. It makes strong and intelligent men. It takes away tired spirits.

Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it?

We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.

It is my soul that calls upon my name; How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears! -Romeo