Angling
Quotes on Angling
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but obtainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
John Buchan (1875-1940) British author, statesman
We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, “Doubtdess God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did”; and so if I might be judge, “God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.”
Izaak Walton (1593-1683) English author, biographer
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.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
ANIMALS Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn’t in us. It’s almost as if we’re put here on earth to show how silly they aren’t.
Russell Hoban (b. 1925) British author
They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) American poet
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and and not by a but.
John Berger (b. 1926) British critic
Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author
The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowhere in a zoo can stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
John Berger (b. 1926) British critic
