| 10 Trout Quotes
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“And though it be a two-foot trout,
'Tis with a single hair pulled out.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras
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“For trouts are tickled best in muddy water.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: On a Hypocritical Nonconformist (st. 4)
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“And angling too, that solitary vice,
What Izaak Walton sings or says:
The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet
Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XIII, st. 106)
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“There's no taking trout with dry breeches.”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. 71)
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“You must loose a flie to catch a trout.
[You must lose a fly to catch a trout.]”
George Herbert Quotes Source: Jacula Prudentum
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“Where the pools are bright and deep
Where the gray trout lies asleep,
Up the river and o'er the lea
That's the way for Billy and me.”
James Hogg ("The Ettrick Shepherd") Quotes Source: A Boy's Song
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“My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the
universe. To him, all good things--trout as well as eternal
salvation--come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not
come easy.”
Norman Fitzroy Maclean Quotes Source: A River Runs Through It
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“Groping for trouts in a peculiar river.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Measure for Measure (Pompey at I, ii)
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“Lie thou there; for here comes the trout that must be caught with
tickling.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Maria at II, v)
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“Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a
trout in the milk.”
Henry David Thoreau Quotes Source: Journal
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