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

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

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"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime."

Jimmy Cannon, American Journalist

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"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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"Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in which people come to rest, to while away the time. What they say or do will be of little matter, for they will bring only their fatigue, their boredom, their hopelessness."

Henry Miller, American Author

Leisure, Nature, Existence, Life, Rest

"They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Leisure, Wealth, Lifestyle, Movement

"Borkin: Ladies and gentlemen, why are you so glum? Sitting there like a jury after it's been sworn in! ... Let's think up something. What would you like? Forfeits, tug of war, catch, dancing, fireworks?"

Anton Chekhov, Russian Dramatist

Leisure, Fun, Joy, Playfulness, Entertainment

"Nice passion is reading."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Leisure, Passion, Reading, Knowledge, Literature

"The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world."

Kenneth Grahame, Scottish Novelist

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"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."

Kenneth Grahame, Scottish Novelist

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"Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed."

Diana Gabaldon, American Author

Leisure, Reading, Rest, Habit

"Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

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"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime."

"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."

"Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in which people come to rest, to while away the time. What they say or do will be of little matter, for they will bring only their fatigue, their boredom, their hopelessness."

"They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together."

"Borkin: Ladies and gentlemen, why are you so glum? Sitting there like a jury after it's been sworn in! ... Let's think up something. What would you like? Forfeits, tug of war, catch, dancing, fireworks?"

"Nice passion is reading."

"The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world."

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."

"Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed."

"Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does."

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"As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler."

"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue."

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"Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art."