91 Quotes by Zane Grey

"A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated."

"The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start."

"There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him."

"Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter."

"Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect."

"Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word."

"Fishing is a condition of the mind wherein one cannot have a bad time."

"There are always greater fish than you have caught, always the lure of greater task and achievement, always the inspiration to seek, to endure, to find."

"If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago."

"Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger; To smile when tears are close; To resist disease and evil men and base instincts; To hate hate and to love love; To go on when it would seen good to die; To look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great."