Patrick Mcmanus Quotes

#1. There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

Patrick F. McManus

#2. ABRAHAM: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
SAMPSON [Aside to Gregory]: Is the law of our side, if I say ay?
GREGORY [Aside to Sampson]: No.
SAMPSON: No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.

William Shakespeare

#3. If thou but settest foot on this path, thou shalt see it everywhere.

Hermes Trismegistus

#4. I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

Charlie Watts

#5. The two best times to fish is when it's raining and when it ain't.

Patrick F. McManus

#6. Ruger liked a touch of pain, I decided, so I did my best to crush him with my inner muscles. I'm generous that way.

Joanna Wylde

#7. What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.

Patrick F. McManus

#8. Show me a man who fishes in winter, and I'll show you a fanatic. Actually, I'll get the better of the deal, because for sheer spectacle a fanatic doesn't hold a candle to a man who fishes in winter

Patrick F. McManus

#9. Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon.

Patrick F. McManus

#10. The machete was needed anytime you had to slash out your own trail. This necessity arose more often than a person who is not a kid with a machete might think.

Patrick F. McManus

#11. While I was explaining to my own doctor that I was planning to undertake some serious exercise, I happened to mention that I thought I had lost quite a bit of weight since my last physical. "You didn't lose it," he said. "It just slipped around to your rear where you can't see it.

Patrick F. McManus

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

Patrick F. McManus

#13. Believing hear, what you deserve to hear:
Your birthday as my own to me is dear ...
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.

Martial

#14. Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

Anton Chekhov

#15. What's the hurry?" he said
"This door is locked," Tully told him.
"So?"
"Can you pick a lock?"
"I'll give it a try."
"Be my guest" Tully said, stepping to one side.
Pap blew the lock away with the shotgun. He pushed the door open with the barrel.

Patrick F. McManus

#16. It's tapping into something so deep that when I reap the rewards, I do not even know I'm reaping them. It's a more overall kinda thing.

Eva Mendes