"See how he throws his baited lines about,/And……" — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout."
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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166 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes has 166 quotes on this site.
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Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it…
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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see…
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The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to…
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I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the…
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Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
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What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings…
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The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of…
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Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart…
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The best servant does his work unseen.
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Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
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More Anglers Quotes
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one of 19 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Young anglers love new rivers the way they love the rest of their lives. Time does not seem to be…
— Thomas McGuane
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No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.
— Izaak Walton
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Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no…
— John Gierach
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Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch,…
— John Wolcot
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Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.
— Roderick Haig-Brown
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I went to see every angler on the bank to see how they were doing, to try to give them…
— Tom Felton
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The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler…
— Charles Kingsley
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A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness…
— Leigh Hunt
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We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws,…
— Leigh Hunt
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There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because…
— Tom Felton
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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
— Izaak Walton
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