John Voelker Quotes & Sayings

Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed — John D. Voelker

There is no subsititue for fishing sense, and if a man doesn't have it, verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to transport sandwiches and beer — John D. Voelker

The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain. — Boyd K. Packer

There's a need, too, for a special name in order to distinguish between this present world and the former world in which the police carried old-fashioned revolvers ... 1Q84 - that's what I'll call this new world. Q is for 'question mark'. A world that bears a question. — Haruki Murakami

To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing. — John D. Voelker

I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and so I told stories about things that I knew about. — John D. Voelker

You're like rottweilers - they protect you from burglars, but nothing protects you from them. — Dia Reeves

Against my will, my fate,
A throne unsettled, and an infant state,
Bid me defend my realms with all my pow'rs, And guard with these severities my shores. — Niccolo Machiavelli

There has to be something wrong when spurning reproduction doesn't make Gabriella and me the "mavericks" we'd both have prided ourselves as in our younger days but standard issue for our era. Surely the contemporary absorption with our own lives as the be-all and end-all ultimately hails from an insidious misanthropy - a lack of faith in the whole human enterprise. In its darkest form, the growing cohort of childless couples determined to throw all their money at Being Here Now - to take that step aerobics class, visit Tanzania, put an addition on the house while making no effort to ensure there's someone around to inherit the place when the party is over - has the quality of the mad, slightly hysterical scenes of gleeful abandon that fiction — Lionel Shriver

From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy. — George Crabbe

The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas. — John D. Voelker

Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife. — John D. Voelker

I'm so confused it almost feels calm. — Shane Jones

And love, who can say the way it winds.. like a serpent in the garden of our untroubled minds — Daniel Handler

Buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman's arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open. — John D. Voelker

Perhaps life itself occurred as a sort of prison she felt compelled to escape. — Chuck Palahniuk

Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness. — John D. Voelker

There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them. — John D. Voelker

I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow. — Keith Ablow

Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence. — Horace

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

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

A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs. — John D. Voelker

Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness ... the greed, the hate all around us. — John D. Voelker

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

The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war is no excuse for sloppy vocabulary. — P.C. Cast

I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things. — John D. Voelker

Evil, then consists essentially in the choice of what is lower in preference to what is higher. — Athanasius Of Alexandria

I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison. — Freddy Fender

Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish. — John D. Voelker

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them. — John D. Voelker

The truth is that trout fishermen scheme and lie and toss in their sleep. They dream of great dripping trout, shapely and elusive as mermaids, and arise cranky and haggard from their fantasies. They are moody and neglectful and all of them a little daft. Moreover they are inclined to drink too much. — John D. Voelker