Logo
The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch,

The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled. – Henry David Thoreau

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Fish, Fishing
category

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. – Don Marquis

Category:
Fish, Fishing

But somewhere, beyond Space and Time,
Is wetter water, slimier slime!
And there (they trust) there swimmeth One
Who swam ere rivers were begun,
Immense, of fishy form and mind,
Squamous, omnipotent, and kind. – Rupert Brooke

Category:
Fish, Fishing

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned. – Izaak Walton

Category:
Fish, Fishing

Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Fish, Fishing

Random Quotes

There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasnt back in the days when they did Cleopatra, where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave. – John Milius

Category:
respect

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. – Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

Category:
Attitude

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. – Marcus Aurelius

Category:
Agreement

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith. – Heinrich Heine

Category:
Faith