A fishing-rod was a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

Samuel Johnson
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  2. As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip away on the endless current and are lost for ever... - Mervyn Peake

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  5. Those less fortunate eat dried fish while the truly destitute fight with the spiny shells of crabs or lobsters. Decades later, my father will find it incomprehensible that Americans crave what in his childhood was considered repugnant fare. - Nayomi Munaweera

More Quotes By Samuel Johnson
  1. It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.

  2. I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

  3. In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

  4. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

  5. Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!

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