"The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted air."

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Source : Theodore Gordon, Paul Schullery (2007). “Theodore Gordon on Trout: Talks and Tales from a Great American Angler”, p.52, Stackpole Books

Theodore Gordon

#Real Quotes #Fishing Quotes #Air Quotes

“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
“Our motto, which we are not afraid to repeat year after year, is 'Death to America'!”
“To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.”
“You are seeing me now, when I am old and ugly; you should have seen me then, when I was young and ugly.”
“That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.”
“Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.”
“You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own â€” What are you when the rose is blown?”

Source : Sir Henry Wotton, John HANNAH (Archdeacon of Lewes.) (1857). “Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others. Edited by the Rev. John Hannah”, p.14
“If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.”

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