Trout Quotes

My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

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.

The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

Glory be to God for dappled things.

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

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.

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

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.

Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.

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

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

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.

Wherever the trout are, it's beautiful.

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

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

I grew up a Phillies fan. Me and my buddies tailgated a couple of times when they won the World Series. I like just being in that atmosphere.

What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast?

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

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

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

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.

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!

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river.

When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.

You pout like a trout in a drought...can't get out. You want to scream, but fish can't shout.

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.

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.

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

Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.

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

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.

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