“ The patience of the hunter is always greater than that of the prey. ”
- Traditional Saying- Copy
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“ Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. — Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929. ”
- Irving Fisher- Copy
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“ What is special about Fisher is not the tedious stuff about six teaspoons of dry mustard, but the literary dressing around the sides of the recipes. ”
- Philip Howard- Copy
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“ This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men. ”
- Izaak Walton- Copy
- 1.4K
“ In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch. ”
- Louis Nizer- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. - James L. Fisher. ”
- James L. Fisher- Copy
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“ The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. ”
- James L. Fisher- Copy
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“ Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. ”
- General George Patton- Copy
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“ Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
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“ The Huntsman and the Fisherman A huntsman, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance with a Fisherman who was bringing home a basket well laden with fish. The Huntsman wished to have the fish, and their owner experienced an equal longing for the contents of the game-bag… ”
- Aesop- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Seeing, then, it is no longer the fisherman, the son of Zebedee, but He who knoweth "the deep things of God" (I Cor. ii. 10), the Holy Spirit, I mean, that striketh this lyre, let us hearken accordingly. For he will say nothing to us as a man, but what he saith, he will say from the depths of the Spirit. ”
- St. John Chrysostom- Copy
- 1.1K
“ When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine! ”
- John Gay- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time. ”
- Joan Sutherland- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Tracker takes the pain out of spreadsheet collaboration. We are not out to replace Excel, which is a popular and very useful application. The idea is to make it more useful by turning it in to an application for tracking data. ”
- Ken Norton- Copy
- 2.7K
“ In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst. ”
- Martina Navratilova- Copy
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“ A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something. ”
- Stephen B. Leacock- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap. ”
- Don Rickles- Copy
- 1.8K
“ We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out. ”
- Jimmy Webb- Copy
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“ It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen. ”
- Phyllis McGinley- Copy
- 2.8K
“ For this reason, it is my further belief that it is not necessary to give notice of this application to John Fisher and Son (Limited) as the original grantor of the restrictive covenant. ”
- Andrew Hacker- Copy
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