Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man…

Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales where walking was part of the…

— Roger Bannister

Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as…

— John D. Voelker

It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places.…

— Steve Carell

The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.

— Thomas McGuane

I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval…

— Mark Kostabi

Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts.

— Charles W. Waterman

You will find a spring by the dwelling of the dead, to the left. Next to it stands a white cypress. Do not approach…

— Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

Near the lake where drooped the willow, Long time ago!

— George Pope Morris

One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the…

— Anonymous

Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it up. (As…

— Tony Bishop

I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with men from…

— Anonymous

Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin',…

— Ira Gershwin

Before the world was made, when it was only darkness and mist and waters, God was well aware of Lake Wobegon, my family, our…

— Garrison Keillor

If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity me. Even…

— Anonymous

It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.

— Michael Faraday