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I shall now confess to you that none of those three trout had to be beheaded, or folded double, to fit their casket. What was big was not the trout, but the chance. What was full was not my creel, but my memory.

Aldo Leopold
trout water memories
If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel. by Ann Landers

If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.

Ann Landers
trout women want

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

Arthur Conan Doyle
trout milk example
Mike Trout is unbelievable. He's one of the best players in baseb... by Bryce Harper

Mike Trout is unbelievable. He's one of the best players in baseball right now, if not the best.

Bryce Harper
trout player baseball
My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout. by E. Lockhart

My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

E. Lockhart
trout my-heart heart
Glory be to God for dappled things. by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Glory be to God for dappled things.

Gerard Manley Hopkins
moles trout glory

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

John Buchan
fisherman trout fishing

They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore.

John Gierach
trout forget-you fishing

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
trout problem fishing

If we carry purism to it's logical conclusion, to do it right {fishing} 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
trout rocks fishing
Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing... by John Gierach

Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.

John Gierach
trout fishing long

Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in!

John Wolcot
trout sin giving
I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself. by Joseph Monninger

I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.

Joseph Monninger
trout loses fishing
When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its... by Joseph Monninger

When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.

Joseph Monninger
trout swim doe
I felt like Eartha Kitt. I'm serving fish, honey, and this ain't... by Jujubee

I felt like Eartha Kitt. I'm serving fish, honey, and this ain't trout.

Jujubee
trout fishes honey

Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.

Kurt Vonnegut
trout purpose two

I can't tell if you're serious or not,' said the driver. I won't know myself until I find out if life is serious or not,' said Trout. 'It's dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn't necessarily mean it's serious, too.

Kurt Vonnegut
trout hurt mean

It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.

Kurt Vonnegut
trout evil ideas

Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.

Kurt Vonnegut
iron-will trout earth

Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!

Kurt Vonnegut
trout voice father
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