Trout Quotes

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. (Henry David Thoreau)
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. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
You must lose a fly to catch a trout. View quote
George Herbert
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. View quote
John Cheever
Like most science-fiction writers, Trout knew almost nothing about science. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!" View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
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. View quote
Bill Bailey
.. I tell you Dain is a splendid catch. I advise you to set your hooks and reel him in.” Jessica took a long swallow of her cognac. "This is not a trout, Genevieve. This is a great, hungry shark.” "Then use a harpoon. View quote
Loretta Chase
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. View quote
Willard Gaylin
Mr. Llewellyn paused. Mr. Trout had begun to float about the room like something out of Swan Lake, and Mr. Llewellyn disapproved of this. He was apt to be a martinet in his dealings with his legal advisers, demanding that lawyers should behave like lawyers and leave eccentric dancing to the professionals. A man, he held, is either Fred Astaire or he is not Fred Astaire, and if he is not Fred Astaire he should not carry on like him. View quote
Fred Astaire
My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,- if I could have been invisible, all the better. I was absolutely interested in men and their ways, as I was interested in marmots and chamois, in tomtits and trout. If only they would stay still and let me look at them, and not get into their holes and up their heights! The living inhabitation of the world - the grazing and nesting in it, - the spiritual power of the air, the rocks, the waters, to be in the midst of it, and rejoice and wonder at it, and help it if I could, - happier if it needed no help of mine, - this was the essential love of Nature in me, this the root of all that I have usefully become, and the light of all that I have rightly learned. (John Ruskin)
Oh Brancepeth,' said the girl, her voice trembling, ‘why haven't you any money? If only you had the merest pittance - enough for a flat in Mayfair and a little weekend place in the country somewhere and a couple of good cars and a villa in the South of France and a bit of trout fishing on some decent river, I would risk all for love. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
To me a 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 9 different floors and one house would be fitted up with special copies of the Dial printed on soft tissue and kept in the toilets on every floor and in the other house we would use the American Mercury and the New Republic. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
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? View quote
Jay Kay
This thing here, which looks like a wooden club, is actually several pieces of particular wood cunningly put together in a certain way so that the whole thing is sprung, like a dance floor. It's for hitting cricket balls with. If you get it right, the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds, and all you've done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout, and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly. What we're trying to do is to write cricket bats, so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock, it might...travel. View quote
Tom Stoppard
Glory be to God for dappled things- For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Had a buddy of mine caught a rainbow trout, and threw it back. He said he didn't want a gay fish. View quote
Larry the Cable Guy
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said. View quote
Richard Brautigan
If you want to catch a trout, don't fish in a herring barrel. View quote
Ann Landers
Trout trudged onward, a stranger in a strange land. His pilgrimage was rewarded with new wisdom, which would never have been his had he remained in his basement in Cohoes. He learned the answer to a question many human beings were asking themselves so frantically: "What's blocking the traffic on the westbound barrel of the Midland City stretch of the Interstate?" (Kurt Vonnegut)
There's no taking trout with dry breeches. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river. View quote
William Shakespeare
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. View quote
John Crowley
Wherever the trout are, it's beautiful. View quote
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk