“ Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town. ”
- Charles Kingsley- Copy
- 1.9K
“ We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out. ”
- Jimmy Webb- Copy
- 1.5K
“ For the most part the majority of fishermen favored postponing it for a 24-hour period because of the gales that were forecast. ”
- Steve Wilson- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. ”
- Malcolm X- Copy
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“ The woods were made for the hunter of dreams, The brooks for the fishers of song. ”
- Sam Walter Foss- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing. ”
- John Clare- Copy
- 1.5K
“ There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try themselves, and those who are afraid that you will succeed. ”
- Ray Goforth- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. ”
- Vincent van Gogh- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap. ”
- Don Rickles- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Sometimes it's Britney Spears and sometimes it's Carrie Fisher. I can't tell if I've got a Lolita complex or an Oedipus complex. ”
- Ben Affleck- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fishermen will snatch it out in his own good time. ”
- Ivan Turgenev- Copy
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“ Oh the brave Fisher's life, It is the best of any, 'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife, And 'tis belov'd of many: Other joys Are but toys; Only this Lawful is, For our skill Breeds no ill, But content and pleasure. ”
- Izaak Walton- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers. ”
- Bob Dylan- Copy
- 2K
“ The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream; And what is it all, when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes. ”
- Alice Cary- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous — almost of pedantic — veracity, that the experienced angler is seen. ”
- Jerome K. Jerome- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Even I, who had the tide going out and in before me in the bay, and even watched for the ebbs, the better to get my shellfish — even I if I had sat down to think, instead of raging at my fate, must have soon guessed the secret, and got free. It was no wonder the fishers had not understood me… ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Jane Grigson is the nearest thing that we have on this side of the great green bouillabaisse to M F K Fisher. with learning and wit that are rarely devoted to such a banausic subject as stuffing food down one's cake hole. ”
- Philip Howard- Copy
- 2.4K
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