"It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this."

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Source : William Cowper Prime (1876). “I Go A-fishing”, p.143

William Cowper Prime

#Fishing Quotes #Doe Quotes #Sake Quotes

“You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always precedes art: apprentice, journeyman, master.”
“The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, itâ€™s an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didnâ€™t notice you noticed at all.”
“Oh, Eva." He rubbed his cheek against my damp face. "I must've wished for you so hard and so often you had no choice but to come true.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sylvia Day from Apr 22, 2012
“To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin”

Source : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.885, Ravenio Books
“I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break.”
“Gray skies are just clouds passing over.”
“I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.”

Source : Interview with Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. March 12, 2011.
“Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon; and if any of these Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said. They laughed.”

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