Quote Mecca

“It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poet and Essayist

I’m lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.

~Daniel Johns

I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.

~ Jack Benny

“There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.”

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Imagination decides everything.”

~ Blaise Pascal

“Carpe Diem” does not mean “fish of the day.”

~Author Unknown

If you’ve got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly.

~Jack Ohman, Fear of Fly Fishing, 1988

Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.

~Author Unknown

My biggest worry is that my wife (when I’m dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it.

~Koos Brandt

Scholars have long known that bass fishing eventually turns men into philosophers.  Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher’s salary.

~Patrick F. McManus