At Jaffa in Syria and among the Nomads in Arabia, are lakes of enormous size that yield very large masses of asphalt,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Almighty has been pleased to grant us a signal victory on Lake Champlain in the capture of one Frigate, one Brig… — Thomas Macdonough Copy Share Image
I don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing… — Paul Schullery Copy Share Image
I'm as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be… — Jeff Merkley Copy Share Image
And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night… — Ihara Saikaku Copy Share Image
On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the Athletics at that time came up to me and said,… — Catfish Hunter Copy Share Image
If you keep at it long enough, one day you may witness some greater disturbance, some rushing breach of the water's surface… — Paul Schullery Copy Share Image
It is a fact that scientists have deposited dye in certain lakes around Orlando and tracked the effluent to Florida Bay. There… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Millions of Americans own dogs, because they are good-natured, simple, and easily amused. I am referring here to the Americans. The dogs… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water;… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The notion of the writer as a kind of sociological sample of a community is ludicrous. Even worse is the notion that… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The truth is -- we are always highly motivated when something means a great deal to us. If I fell into a… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
In the evening, I walked alone down to the Lake by the side of Crow Park after sunset and saw the solemn… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
When I come to a new city is I combine: I say, well, it's like Barcelona and Edinburgh, though I can't imagine… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
It was like a dam of musical critique had broken. Imasu turned on him with eyes that flashed instead of shining. "It… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Drop guilt! - because to be guilty is to live in hell. Not being guilty, you will have the freshness of dewdrops… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Scots are born exiles, and Scotland the perfect country to be exiled from. Do not imagine that I am running down Scotland.… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
Your culture is your limit; if you can't go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared. Pat Williams When Xavier McDaniel plays against Orlando… — Mychal Thompson Copy Share Image
We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
As far as I can ascertain the reasons for missing a rising fish come from faulty reactions. When we miss a fish… — Ray Bergman Copy Share Image
If you want to catch more fish, more often, take luck out of your fishing equation and replace it with knowledge of… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you.… — Klaus Kinski Copy Share Image
Just as the Salt Lake Temple took 40 years to build, stone by stone, you are building a virtuous life, step by step. — Mary N. Cook Copy Share Image
...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too. — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
I used to race at the YMCA in Crystal Lake, Illinois, they used to have a dirt track there, and there was… — Matt Skiba Copy Share Image
My golf game's gone off so much that when I went fishing a couple of weeks ago my first cast missed the… — Ben Crenshaw Copy Share Image
I really enjoy sailing on Lake Geneva because I can just look at the shore and see my wife having a barbecue… — Ernesto Bertarelli Copy Share Image
Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness. — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they’ve… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
