Quotes of Trout - somelinesforyou

“ Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ There's no taking trout with dry breeches. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ You must lose a fly to catch a trout. ”

- George Herbert

“ It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream. ”

- Augusta Gregory

“ A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies. ”

- John Cheever

“ At early dawn when the air is crisp and you're standing knee deep in a beautiful rip, you see a trout rise to an unknown fly then your heart starts to wonder why you're a neophyte fly fisherman. ”

- George W. Harvey

“ A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion. ”

- Robert Hughes

“ For trouts are tickled best in muddy water. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Lie thou there; for here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ And though it be a two-foot trout, 'Tis with a single hair pulled out. ”

- Samuel Butler
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