#fish

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved. ↗

— Lauren Holly

#astonished #back #good #good parent #how

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#dozen #finds #fish #full #memory

I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you? ↗

— Shannon Hoon

#because #doing #enough #frustrated #happy

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#fine #fish #fishing #forefathers #great

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#fishing #occasions #only #prayer #presidents

We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale. ↗

— John Hope

#catfish #caught #come #hooks #pin

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#after #being #highest #only #seeing

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#horses #nets #ride #throwing #were

Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#fishing #form #loafing #seems

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#cold #friendship #get #may #most