Billiards Quote by Arthur Ransome Download Open image “Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.” — Arthur Ransome ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Billiards Boat Disgusting Fishes Fishing Lakes Perfection Rivers Sea
Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egoism, soothes our troubles and shames… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Fishing can come as close to doing nothing as anything I can think of. — Ruth Rudner Copy Share Image
Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better. — David Walker Copy Share Image
Fishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and there's nothing… — Bob Gibson Copy Share Image
Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this. — Harold Russell Copy Share Image
Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time. — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books but as… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth. — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
“They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.” — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
“The island had come to seem one of those places seen from the train that belong to a life in which we shall never… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton whose book… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
“Who would wave a flag to be rescued if they had a desert island of their own? That was the thing that spoilt Robinson… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
“The storm came pretty soon," said John. "They won't have got much further before it caught them. We may find them any minute. They'll… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There was one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about other people's… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
..."And then we played Ping-Pong—” “Not pool? I always assumed he was a billiards man—I mean, it’s so handy the way he keeps a… — Claire LaZebnik Copy Share Image
“A sign read "Free drinks for billiards competitors only." Hand-lettered below read "All others will pay." It was written in blood. I could tell… — Red Tash Copy Share Image
I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the… — Juan Manuel Fangio Copy Share Image
Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor; maintained a… — Robert Greenberg Copy Share Image