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quote[0]="People have the most fun. -- Dan McJunkins"
quote[1]="For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these 'It might have been.' -- John Greenleaf Whittier"
quote[2]="Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. -- Jesus of Nazareth"
quote[3]="You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi"
quote[4]="If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. -- James Goldsmith"
quote[5]="There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. -- Washington Irving"
quote[6]="Of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy. -- William Sherwood Fox"
quote[7]="Fishermen are born honest, but they get over it. -- Ed Zern"
quote[8]="It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. -- John Steinbeck"
quote[9]="Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers.  Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary. -- Patrick F. McManus"
quote[10]="Dreams are the touchstone of our character. -- Henry David Thoreau"
quote[11]="Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? -- Henry David Thoreau"
quote[12]="He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. -- Benjamin Franklin"
quote[13]="Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. -- Abigail Van Buren"
quote[14]="There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin"
quote[15]="Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard"
quote[16]="Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house. -- Lewis Grizzard"
quote[17]="Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. -- Prov. 4:23"
quote[18]="May the road rise to meet you.<br>May the wind be always at your back.<br>May the sun shine warm upon your face,<br>The rains fall soft upon your fields,<br>And until we meet again,<br>May God hold you in the hollow of His hand. -- An Irish Blessing"
quote[19]="To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming"
quote[20]="The only thing my father & I have in common is that our similarities are different. -- Dale Berra, son of Yogi"
quote[21]="We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. - President Jimmy Carter"
quote[22]="You can observe a lot just by watching. -- Yogi Berra"
quote[23]="The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good. -- George Washington"
quote[24]=" A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. -- Prov. 25:11"
quote[25]="You can't teach what you don't know;<br>You can't preach what you don't show;<br>You can't lead where you don't go."
quote[26]="To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. -- Ecc. 3:1"
quote[27]="The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -- Robert Frost"
quote[28]="The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. -- Mark Twain"
quote[29]="If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain"
quote[30]="The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson"
quote[31]="When in doubt, tell the truth. -- Mark Twain"
quote[32]="Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson"
quote[33]="A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson"
quote[34]="If a man is truly blessed, he returns home from fishing to be greeted by the best catch of his life."
quote[35]="When God measures a man, he puts the tape around his heart instead of his head. -- Anonymous"
quote[36]="We have not inherited the earth from our fathers, we are borrowing it from our children. -- Native American Proverb"
quote[37]="The brook would lose its song if you removed the rocks."
quote[38]="It takes few words to tell the truth. -- Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce"
quote[39]="Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if he kept his mouth shut."
quote[40]="If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. -- Robert South"
quote[41]="To capture the fish is not all of the fishing. -- Zane Grey"
quote[42]="Do not be concerned about others not appreciating you. Be concerned with your not appreciating others. -- Confucius"
quote[43]="To learn without thinking is labor in vain. To think without learning is desolation. -- Confucius"
quote[44]="Following the path of least resistence is what makes both men and rivers crooked. -- Unknown"
quote[45]="Love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self. -- Scottish Saying"
quote[46]="It's easy to halve the potato where there's love. -- Irish Saying"
quote[47]="Better to be a man of character than a man of means. -- Irish Saying"
quote[48]="If God sends you down a stony path, may he give you strong shoes. -- Irish Saying"
quote[49]="Earth has no sorrows that heaven cannot heal. -- Irish Saying"
quote[50]="I don't know exactly what fly fishing teaches us, but I think it's something we need to know. -- John Gierach"
quote[51]="If people concentrated on the really important things of life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. -- Doug Larso "
quote[52]="After all, fly fishing is one small part of American culture where it's still assumed that experience and a little age naturally bring wisdom. -- John Gierach"
quote[53]="If we carry purism to it's logical conclusion, to do it right you'd have to live naked in a cave, hit your trout on the head with rocks, and eat them raw. But, so as not to violate another essential element of the fly-fishing tradition, the rocks would have to be quarried in England and cost $300 each. -- John Gierach"
quote[54]="Most of us don't even want money, we just want relief from the struggle for it. -- John Gierach"
quote[55]="Fishing is one of the few ways I know of to let go of the past, forget about the future, and live in the moment. -- John Gierach"
quote[56]="I mean, it's just fishing, and the best the big non-angling world can say about any of us is that we're harmless. -- John Gierach"
quote[57]="If you wanted a fish that could sip wine and discuss Italian poetry, you'd look for a trout.  If you needed a ditch dug, you'd hire a carp. -- John Gierach"
quote[58]="I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance.  Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't.  It's interesting how little difference that makes. -- John Gierach"
quote[59]="Don't bless the fish till it gets to the land. -- Irish Proverb"
quote[60]="A promise is a debt. -- Irish Proverb"
quote[61]="Least said, soonest mended. -- Irish Proverb"
quote[62]="A little of anything isn't worth a pin, but a wee bit of sense is worth a lot. -- Irish Proverb"
quote[63]="Your prison is walking through this world all alone. -- Don Henley/Glenn Frey  from the song Desperado"
quote[64]="The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. -- Chinese Proverb"
quote[65]="Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. -- Chinese Proverb"
quote[66]="If a son is uneducated, his dad is to blame. -- Chinese Proverb"
quote[67]="One who walks along a river frequently cannot avoid getting his shoes wet. -- Chinese Proverb"
quote[68]="A friend made is a road paved; an enemy created is a wall built. -- Chinese Proverb"
quote[69]="Never marry for money, you can borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb"
quote[70]="Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion. -- Scottish Proverb"
quote[71]=" Every fisher loves best the trout that is of his own tickling. -- Scottish Proverb"
quote[72]="That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. -- Thomas Jefferson"
quote[73]="I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. -- Thomas Jefferson"
quote[74]="When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. -- African Proverb"
quote[75]="When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy. -- Chinese Proverb"
quote[76]="I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. -- Winston Churchill"
quote[77]="It is better to fish hopefully than to catch fish. -- Paul Quinnett"
quote[78]="Anger is more hurtful than the wrong that caused it. -- Scottish Saying"
quote[79]="Never argue - simply keep repeating your assertion. -- Scottish Saying"
quote[80]="He never lies but when the holly is green. -- Scottish Saying"
quote[81]="He's the slave of all slaves who serve's none but himself. -- Scottish Saying"
quote[82]="The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't seen the joke yet. -- Oliver Herford"
quote[83]="The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it. -- Scottish Saying"
quote[84]="Better keep the devil out, than have to put him out. -- Scottish Saying"
quote[85]="Say but little, and say it well. -- Scottish Saying"
quote[86]="Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him. -- Scottish Saying"
quote[87]="The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -- Mahatma Gandhi"
quote[88]="A man is a lion in his own cause. -- Scottish Saying"
quote[89]="Luck never gives; it only lends. -- Scottish Saying"
quote[90]="The devil's boots don't creak.  -- Scottish Saying"
quote[91]="For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. -- Hosea 8:7"
quote[92]="Lose your temper and you lose a friend; lie and you lose yourself. -- Native American (Hopi) Saying"
quote[93]="Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf. -- Native American Proverb"
quote[94]="The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard. -- Luther Standing Bear, Oglala Sioux"
quote[95]="As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized. -- Ohiyesa, Santee Sioux"
quote[96]="Character wins.  -- Rick Patino"
quote[97]="Courage is not the absence of fear.  Courage is walking through one's fear to get the job done.  -- Dee Bowman"
quote[98]="Influence is the propagation of one's own convictions.  -- Dee Bowman"
quote[99]="Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout.  -- Irish Proverb"
quote[100]="The child is father of the man.  -- William Wordsworth"
quote[101]="You keep on singing for the sake of the song, after the thrill is gone.  -- Don Henley/Glenn Frey  from the song After the Thrill is Gone"
quote[102]="Any time a man ain't fishin' he's frittering his life away. -- Patrick F. McManus"
quote[103]="I believe that the solution to any problem: work, love, money, whatever, is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be. -- John Gierach"
quote[104]="I think a lot of us fish day after day as much for what could happen as for what actually does happen. -- John Gierach"
quote[105]="Something to think about:  If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly. -- John Gierach"
quote[106]="For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.  -- Jesus of Nazareth"
quote[107]="For those who fought for it, freedom has a taste the protected will never know. -- Willie 'Bo' Nelson"
quote[108]="They that would give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin"
quote[109]="The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotations. -- Isaac Disraeli"
quote[110]="It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. -- Sir Winston Churchill"
quote[111]="Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -- Will Rogers"
quote[112]="I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -- Thomas Jefferson"
quote[113]="It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves. -- William Shakespeare"
quote[114]="How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world! -- William Shakespeare"
quote[115]="To thine own self be true. -- William Shakespeare"
quote[116]="Love sought is good, but given unsought is better -- William Shakespeare"
quote[117]="I laugh in the face of danger... then I hide until it goes away. -- Xander Harris"
quote[118]="The difference between fly fishers and worm dunkers is the quality of their excuses -- Unknown"
quote[119]="The two best times to fish is when it's rainin' and when it ain't. -- Patrick F. McManus"
quote[120]="'Carpe Diem' does not mean 'fish of the day'. -- Unknown"
quote[121]="We ask a simple question and that is all we wish; Are fishermen all liars?; or, do only liars fish? -- William Sherwood Fox"
quote[122]="Whoever said 'Even a bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work' never had their boat sink."
quote[123]="I am sorry but I will not let some imaginary concept limit my approach to fly fishing.  -- Fox Statler"
quote[124]="Getting married for sex is like buying a 747 for the free peanuts. -- Jeff Foxworthy"
quote[125]="...and the sea will grant each man new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home. -- Christopher Columbus"
quote[126]="From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. -- Arthur Ashe"
quote[127]="Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. -- George Halas"
quote[128]="My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. -- Winston Churchill"
quote[129]="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"
quote[130]="Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. -- Don Marquis"
quote[131]="Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things. -- Confucius"
quote[132]="Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other. -- William Faulkner"
quote[133]="The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' -- Sigmund Freud"
quote[134]="If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girl friends. And they tolerated it and let us go ahead and play with our toys. -- Orson Welles"
quote[135]="I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor "
quote[136]="A man was once accused by his wife of loving fly-fishing more than he loved her. Without hesitation he asked 'Wet or dry fly?'"
quote[137]="My hook is baited with a dream, I fish for peace -- Robert Service"
quote[138]="Not many of us shoot ourselves during the evening hatch -- Jim Harrison"
quote[139]="We have met the enemy, and he is us.  -- Pogo"
quote[140]="Honey, I love the Dodgers, but I love you more than football. -- Tommy Lasorda, to his young wife, Jo, many years ago"
quote[141]="Deserve's got nothing to do with it.  -- Clint Eastwood's character in <i>The Unforgiven</i>"
quote[142]="There is nothing sacred about fly fishing, although so much has been said and written about it that it has acquired nearly the status of a religion. -- Steve Raymond from <i>The Year of the Angler</i>"
quote[143]="A fly tier is an artist.  The pelts of exotic birds and animals are his paints and the hook is his palette. -- Steve Raymond from <i>The Year of the Angler</i>"
quote[144]="The quality of mercy is not strain'd. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blest. It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.  -- William Shakespeare"
quote[145]="The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He can not only forgive; he can forget; and he strives for that nobleness of self and mildness of character which imparts sufficient strength to let the past be put the past.  -- Robert E. Lee"
quote[146]="There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.  -- Robert E. Lee"
quote[147]="Whiskey - I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it.  -- Robert E. Lee"
quote[148]="Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.  -- Robert E. Lee"
quote[149]="Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.   -- John Kennedy"
quote[150]="Do they leave it there during the game?  -- Bill 'Spaceman' Lee talking about Fenway Park's Green Monster"
quote[151]="People don't know this but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I came down with hepatitis. The trainer injected me with it.  -- Bob Uecker"
quote[152]="Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.  -- Thomas Jefferson"
quote[153]="Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'  -- Mickey Mantle"
quote[154]="In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.  -- Harry Truman"
quote[155]="It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. -- Harry Truman"
quote[156]="An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. -- Mahatma Gandhi"
quote[157]="Patience is indeed a virtue.  It's just one that I don't possess. -- Johnny McJunkins"
quote[158]="A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. -- Winston Churchill"
quote[159]="Give a Man a Fish, Feed Him For a Day. Teach a Man to Fish, Feed Him For a Lifetime. -- Lao Tzu"
quote[160]="Whiskey - I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it. -- Robert E. Lee"
quote[161]="A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.  -- Max Lucado"
quote[162]="The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort. -- Colin Powell"
quote[163]="I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle,' and the other isn't. -- Ulysses S. Grant"
quote[164]="Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think. -- Billy Graham"
quote[165]="I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas. -- Pat Buchanan"
quote[166]="My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard.  Mother would come out and say, \"You're tearing up the grass.\" \"We're not raising grass,\" Dad would reply. \"We're raising boys.\"  -- Harmon Killebrew"
quote[167]="Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. -- Lou Holtz"
quote[168]="Who gossips with you will gossip of you. -- Irish Saying"
quote[169]="All sins cast long shadows. -- Irish Saying"
quote[170]="Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. -- Lou Holtz"
quote[171]="Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher in baseball. He is always pitching when the other team doesn't score any runs. - Tim McCarver"
quote[172]="Did they tell me how to pitch to (Ted) Williams? Sure they did. It was great advice, very encouraging. They said he had no weakness, won't swing at a bad ball, has the best eyes in the business, and can kill you with one swing. He won't hit anything bad, but don't give him anything good. - Bobby Shantz"
quote[173]="I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five. - Yogi Berra"

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