Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
And so we climb inexorably (Thank big G for a spell checker) towards 1000 fishy quotes and sayings – numbers 871 – 875 are up now.
My pick of today’s bunch:
“And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte.”
Dame Juliana Berners -The Boke of St. Albans- 1496
I guess this is as true today as it was 500 years ago. What is also true is how much English has changed (and is still changing) over the same time frame.
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Fished for over 50 years in fresh and salt water, in NZ and around the world. Seven books on fishing (flyfishing and saltwater) published. Write articles for magazines in NZ, Australia, USA, and England. Seen and done amazing & marvelous things, and things no man ought to have seen or been trained to do - in 60 something years around this planet. Read and heard ideas, that have inspired, invigorated, appalled and disgusted. Would not have had it any other way!