Quote by Jack Handey
As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gr

As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint. – Jack Handey

Other quotes by Jack Handey

If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn’t open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming. – Jack Handey

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Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but when I told that story around the campfire, nobody got scared. – Jack Handey

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Environment
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If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. – Jack Handey

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You must lose a fly to catch a trout. – George Herbert

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…of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy. – William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954

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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. – Ernest Hemingway

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“Carpe Diem” does not mean “fish of the day.” – Author Unknown

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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. – John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday

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Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. – Ishmael Reed

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