"You cannot lose what you never had."

-- Izaak Walton

#Lakes Quotes #Sea Quotes #Fishing Quotes

“Dublin was a glorious name in our family and had pleasurable associations of violence â€¦Today I am so at home in Dublin, more than in any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me â€¦ it took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel â€“ which I quite like too.”

Source : "The strings are false: an unfinished autobiography".
“You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time to spend it. Its owner finds himself beset on every side, at every hour, wherever he goes, by persistent pleaders, like beggars in Bombay, each demanding that he invest or give away part of his wealth. He becomes suspicious of honest friendship--indeed honest friendship is rarely offered him; those who could have been his friends are too fastidious to be jostled by beggars, too proud to risk being mistaken for one.”
“There is absolutely no nutrient, no protein, no vitamin, no mineral that can't be obtained from plant-based foods.”
“Central banks have gotten out of the central banking business and into the central planning business, meaning that they are devoted to raising up-if they can-economic growth and employment through the dubious means of suppressing interest rates and printing money. The nice thing about gold is that you can't print it.”
“Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.”
“At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind”
“No relationship would be successful without a little compromise. If you can't learn to do that then I'm sorry to say your relationship will never survive. Love is about giving and taking, it's not just about smiles and kind words. Compromise is key.”
“[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.”

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