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“When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway
Directs the roving trout this fatal way,
He greedily sucks in the twining bait,
And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat.
Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line!
How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!”
John Gay Quotes Source: Rural Sports (canto I, l. 150)
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“They may the better fish in the water when it is troubled.”
Richard Grafton Quotes Source: Chronicles (I, 283)
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“There is only one theory about angling in which I have perfect
confidence, and this is that the two words, least appropriate to
any statement, about it, are the words "always" and "never."”
Lord Edward Grey (Grey of Fallodon) Quotes Source: Fly-Fishing
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“La ligne, avec sa canne, est un long instrument,
Dont le plus mince bout tient un petit reptile,
Et dont l'autre est tenu par un grand imbecile.”
Jeanne Guyet Quotes Source: French version of lines attributed to Samuel Johnson
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“The line with its rod is a long instrument whose lesser end holds
a small reptile, while the other is held by a great fool.
[Fr., La ligne avec sa canne est un long instrument,
Dont le plus mince bout tient un petit reptile,
Et dont Pautre est tenu pau un grand imbecile.]”
Jeanne Guyet Quotes Source: French version of lines attributed to Samuel Johnson
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“I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except we
like it and it makes us think and feel.”
Roderick L. Haig-Brown Quotes Source: A River Never Sleeps
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“Best fishing in troubled waters.”
Sir John Harrington Quotes Source: Orlando Furioso (bk. XII)
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“To fish in troubled waters.”
Matthew (Mathew) Henry Quotes Source: Commentaries (Psalm LX)
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