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«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»
Author: Clark Gable (Actor) | Keywords: dames, fishing, jumped, no Time
«In cross-examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch»
«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.»
«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.»
«If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.»
«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.»
«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.»
«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»

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