Just for a change of pace...
To do something different, list your favorite quotes. There can be "Yogi'isms (I'm sure RW will like that) and they don't necessarily need to be fly fishing related. If possible, list who is quoted. I have several and will list mine later as this thread (hopefully) progresses.
Mike
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There is no greater fan of flyfishing than the worm.
Patrick McManus
"Nothing strengthens an opinion like ignorance" unknown
"The Lord must surely love stupid people because he made so many of them, however, he never intended for any of them to work with me." Dr. M.E. Emsminger (sp?), father of modern animal science.
"They pay you to do that?" My 88 yr. old uncle, used like "Here's your sign".
"When I saw her I knew he hadn't met her in Sunday school", my uncle again.
This is fun,
baldmidge
Cheap is expensive - old Dutch adage.
The only time a whale can be harpooned is when he's spouting off - another old Dutch adage.
When a person asks for critiques, they actually want praise - a third old Dutch adage.
I'll kick your butt (not the actual word of course) so high, you'll have to get a haircut to poop (also not the actual word).
Author - my mean vile Stepfather.
This is going to be a long thread
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Snow on the roof with fire in the hearth
Don't confuse the issue with facts.
jed
One of my favorite non-fishing type... courtesy of NYPD Blue...
Don't p*** in my ear and tell me it's raining...
Mike
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There is no greater fan of flyfishing than the worm.
Patrick McManus
"I find television very educating. Everytime someone turns on the set I go in the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx
"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went"
Will Rogers
When disussing natural resource issues.
"Perception is more important than facts" (JP Kimmins)
When I'm drawing up the match plan at the office:
"Ok gang, I know it's not easy. If it was easy to do, I'd ask a moron to do it, ... Do you want something easy to do today ??"
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Christopher Chin
Jonquiere Quebec
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Christopher Chin
"Things are more like they are now than they ever were before" Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that
it is not fish they are after." - Henry David Thoreau
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
-- Thomas Edison
"Never mistake activity for achievement."
-- John Wooden
" If the human brain were simple enough to understand, we would be too
simple to understand it."
-- Emerson Pugh
"... and, finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the concerns of men are equally unimportant - and not nearly so much fun."
-- John Voelker
"An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do." Dylan Thomas
"Nothing sadder than a middle-aged hipster" Lenny Bruce
(and, Jed, while i know it sounds as if both of these are aimed at you, they're not. really!)
[This message has been edited by D. Micus (edited 10 February 2005).]
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