"Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has ever improved on that statement."

-- John Gierach

#Fishing Quotes #Cotton Quotes #Anglers Quotes

“When we are eager to be shy and humble about our accomplishments, we lose confidence in our abilities.”
“That was the first time I knew I loved him.”
“Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.”
“I can't tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like.”
“Ingenuity and incongruity always cheer me up.”
“The year after I graduated from high school, they came to shoot Mr. and Mrs. Bridge in Kansas City.”
“Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's not 'they' who say, but Walter Benjamin who said, 'Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness, with the base and the banal.' In September, 1940, Benjamin died under ambiguous circumstances in the French-Spanish border town of Portbou, while attempting to flee the Nazis.”
“Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he is normal or retarded. ... We do not attempt to establish or prepare a prognosis and we leave unanswered the question of whether this retardation is curable, or even improveable. We shall limit ourselves to ascertaining the truth in regard to his present mental state.”

Source : Alfred Binet (1977). “Works on Psychometrics”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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