To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.

Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.

I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.

There is no subsititue for fishing sense, and if a man doesn't have it, verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to transport sandwiches and beer

Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.

Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed

The best time to go fishing is when you can get away.

The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.

One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to break.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

To avoid whipsaw losses, stop trading.

Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.

It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!

They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little.

In fact, is beginning to use a lot of the language and phraseology that we have used. In fact, I think I saw Hillary Clinton TV ad, and I thought it was me.

It is most important that top management be quality-minded. In the absence of sincere manifestation of interest at the top, little will happen below.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

When I see Bin Laden with his AK-47, I got nervous. But what can I do, terrorists aren't fools: they too chose the most reliable guns.

Even ashes are a part of your freedom.