Here a few choice quotes for some words of wisdom and holiday cheer!

“There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.”
Roderick Haig-Brown

“I fish not because I regard fishing as being terribly important, but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant, and not nearly so much fun.”
John Volker

“Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn.”
Chuck Clark

“If people concentrated on the really important things of life, there would be a shortage of fishing poles.”
Doug Larson

“Fly fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.”
Arnold Gingrich

“Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly.”
John Gierach

“What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.”
Patrick F. McManus

“Only an extraordinary person would purposely risk being outsmarted, over and over again, by a creature often less than twelve inches long.”
Janna Bialek

“All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish.”
Harold F. Blaisdell

“There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.”
Patrick F. McManus