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Letter "F" » fishing
«Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing»
«In cross-examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch»
Author: Louis Nizer
| Keywords:
cross-examination, examination, fisherman, fishermen, fishing, pulled, ungainly
«It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.»
«Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.»
Author: Steven Wright
(Comedian)
| Keywords:
caught, Dali, dot, dots, dotted, dotted line, every last, every other, fish, fishing, last year, Salvador, using
«If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.»
«In the meantime, on the sly,Something's going on up high.Max has shown some foresight here,For he brought his fishing gear.»
Author: Wilhelm Busch
| Keywords:
fishing, fishing gear, gear, high gear, in the meantime, meantime, on the sly, sly
«If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.»
Author: Doug Larson
| About:
Life,
Sports
| Keywords:
concentrated, fishing, fishing pole, poles, shortage
«In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
bottom fish, culminate, culminated, culminates, culminating, detect, detects, fishing, lapse, lapsed, lapses, lapsing, occasions, sandy, shallow, slides, stream, sublime, thin
«It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
article, Back To Reality, biography, by and by, despised, fishing, infer, inferred, infers, miniature, paraphrase, paraphrases, pond, recollections, rich person, tame, volumes
«Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement: but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
angling, fishing, fish stick, float, fly fishing
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