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There's no taking trout with dry breeches. -- Miguel de Cervantes
You must lose a fly to catch a trout. -- George Herbert
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout. -- Willard Gaylin
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. -- Henry David Thoreau
Wherever the trout are, it's beautiful. -- Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river. -- William Shakespeare
I got a waterbed, but my husband stocked it with trout. -- Joan Rivers
If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel. -- Ann Landers
A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it. -- Arnold Gingrich
Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said. -- Richard Brautigan
What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast? -- Nash Buckingham
Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies! -- Jennifer Armintrout
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly? -- Izaak Walton
If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him. -- Matt Kemp
Whenever I hear the sparrow chirping, watch the woodpecker chirp, catch a chirping trout, or listen to the sad howl of the chirp rat, I think: Oh boy! I'm going insane again. -- Jack Handey
On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar. -- Thomas Jefferson
My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy. -- Norman Maclean
Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand have I been less than in a place that was less than beautiful. -- Charles Kuralt
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
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
The trout that seem to stick in my memory the finest aren't the big ones, and maybe it's because I have't visited all the corners of the globe, but my most unforgettable trout all lived close to home. In fact, when I take out my pouch of trout memories and spill them all on the table, it seems that the smaller ones shine the brightest. -- William G. Tapply
To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors. -- Ernest Hemingway
Mike Trout is unbelievable. He's one of the best players in baseball right now, if not the best. -- Bryce Harper
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
It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world â?? in the form of bad ideas. -- Kurt Vonnegut
As a child of eight Mr. Trout had once kissed a girl of six under the mistletoe at a Christmas party, but there his sex life had come to abrupt halt. -- P. G. Wodehouse
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
Trout fishing is like any other sport. It is waste of words to try to give anyone who has never tried it any idea of what it means to land a five-pound trout on a gossamer leader. -- Cornelia Parker
Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer. -- Kurt Vonnegut
As an old, old man, Trout would be asked by Dr. Thor Lembrig, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, if he feared the future. He would give this reply: 'Mr. Secretary-General, it is the past which scares the bejesus out of me. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface. -- Edward Abbey
Trout aren't naturally as selective as they've become in crowded tailwaters - they've been trained to be like that by too much fishing pressure. I've seen tailwater fish that are so hysterical they'll refuse naturals. You wonder how they get enough to eat. -- John Gierach
Love is a myth.' 'Love is a myth,' Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.' 'What?' 'In winter,'Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is a myth. A report, a rumor. Not to be believed in. Get it? Love is a myth. So is summer. -- John Crowley
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
The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of the diseases were all in the fourth dimension, and three-dimensional Earthling doctors couldn't see those causes at all, or even imagine them. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Salsa verde is delicious with trout or most any fish. -- Tom Douglas
When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward. -- Joseph Monninger
I used to write in a room overlooking the valley from where I could see too much, whether checking the sheep and alpacas or seeing the trout rise on the lake. -- Antony Beevor
When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some people are ruthless with their schedules. Not me. I wing it. -- Douglas Coupland
If I'm working as an engineer for another band, the responsibility for brilliance pretty much rests on their shoulders. I think I'm pretty good, but I'm not good enough to turn a trout into a sausage, or the other way around. -- Steve Albini
Mustanging' was like trout fishing. It is always the big ones that get away. When you did get a bunch of them into a corral, you found they did not look half so large and handsome as when they were first sighted on the prairie. -- Will C. Barnes
I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I've got my work 40 yards from my home. I don't mind being criticised, but where are they criticising from? Which hut are they criticising me from, exactly? -- Jay Kay
My favorite way to cook trout is whole, bone-in, on the grill. The fish are stuffed with sliced lemons and herb sprigs, brushed with oil, and cooked over fairly hot coals until the skin is crisp and the flesh is moist and flaky. Go ahead and gild the lily by adding a sauce. -- Tom Douglas
My youngest brother and I went on a ten-day canoe trip in Bowron Provincial Park in British Columbia years ago. Believe it or not, we took only granola, thinking we'd be eating a lot of lake trout. Well, we neglected to bring along a net, and our fishing line was only 8-lb. test. -- Will Hobbs
I usually fish a Hornberg or a Muddler Minnow, a deer-haired streamer that comes in a variety of sizes and colors but replicates a sculpin minnow or a grasshopper. Even if a trout doesn't take the larger streamers, it can usually be counted on to come up and give a look, revealing its location. -- Joseph Monninger
To be able to serve and to eat a whole fish, especially a trout, is part of civilized dining. This applies particularly to the young, who should take to it as soon as they can handle knife and fork; this is a fine way for them to begin taking pride in themselves and their abilities. -- Julia Child
One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass. -- G. Tyler Miller
A trout fisherman is something that defieth understanding. -- Corey Ford
Or whipping its rough surface for a trout... -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout. -- E. Lockhart
...there are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream. -- Ed Zern
The things fishermen know about trout aren't facts but articles of faith. -- John Gierach
...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us. -- Arnold Gingrich
Silence is a beautiful fresh water tank to raise the trout of thought. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I felt like Eartha Kitt. I'm serving fish, honey, and this ain't trout. -- Jujubee
It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream. -- George Eliot
On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments. -- Arnold Gingrich
His own eyes were soft and dreamy, cloudy as a trout pool in the rain." -- Diana Gabaldon
After that first trout I was alone in there. But I didn't know it until later -- Richard Brautigan
Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration. -- John Gierach
I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree. -- John Burroughs
See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg. -- Theodore Gordon
Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men. -- James M. Barrie
You pout like a trout in a drought...can't get out. You want to scream, but fish can't shout. -- MF Grimm
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. -- Ben Hecht
Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away. -- Billy Connolly
A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion. -- Robert Hughes
Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away. -- Mary Augusta Ward
It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care. -- William Butler Yeats
One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to break. -- John D. Voelker
The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art... -- Robert Burns
What pretty bright trout there are in this bold rock creek! It would full be called a river in England, and so it is! -- Thaddeus Norris
Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish. -- Bill Bailey
. . . . spending more time with my fly firmly attached to the branches of trees and almost none of it attached to the lips of a trout. -- Tom Sutcliffe
Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake. -- Wallace Stegner
Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout. -- Josh Billings
I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling... -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed. -- John Gierach
The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen. -- Gordon MacQuarrie
I've swallowed fish-eyes wholelike an endoscope.I once ate a trout cooked inside a dolphin. Felt like a shark eating another shark,inside the cold-blooded womb of yet another shark. -- Yann Rousselot
And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it. -- Lord Byron
Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as well as among the most frustrating and humiliating. -- John D. Voelker
What if leaves changed shape as well as color? You can teach a man to fish, or you can introduce him to a woman named Fish who happens to look like a trout. -- Jarod Kintz
During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to go on a lot more before I hang up my waders -- John D. Voelker
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
Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout. -- Paul Schullery

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