Art Quote by John Dryden

By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid, art, makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.

— John Dryden

I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger: the little things that compose the foundation of…

— E. O. Wilson

There is something basic about fishing that goes back to man's very beginnings.

— Robert Fuller

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.

— Algernon Sidney

Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and…

— Plutarch

The matter of flies, lines and other equipment of the right sort is not absolutely necessary in the rising of fish but they are…

— Ray Bergman

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

— Van Wyck Brooks

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but…

— Alexander Herzen

Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive; His tail takes…

— Michael Drayton

I am almost certain fishermen posess a peculiar bend to their makeup. Fisherman are optimists, and the fish in the future is always preferable…

— Joseph Monninger

“the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water”

— Virginia Woolf

“All living things have the ability to flourish when they are tended with gentle hands.”

— Erin Forbes