Evil Quote by Paul Whitehouse

As much as anything, the anglers will clue you in to the midge hatch. You will see them hunched over in concentration like herons.…

— Ed Engle

I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and men, in…

— Beryl Markham

My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges.

— Phyllis McGinley

I am attached to the west coast of Scotland - it's gorgeous to look at and challenging. You have to contend with the possibility…

— Clive Anderson

Yes, I actually have a portable fly-tying kit in my vest. I spent hours putting it all together, with a special emphasis on midge…

— Jack Ohman

The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.

— Coventry Patmore

Don't you find it rather heavy, to have everything really in front of you – all the people who are going to matter, whom…

— Anonymous

If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant…

— Lewis Thomas

As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise…

— Desiderius Erasmus

I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It throws its…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

— Arthur Balfour