Perch/fishing

Famous quotes containing the words perch and/or fishing:

““Woman is mannes joy and all his bliss.”
For when I feel a-night your softe side,
Albeit that I may not on you ride,
For that our perch is made so narrowe, alas!
I am so full of joy and of solace
That I defye bothe sweven and dream.’”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.”
—Tom Brokaw (b. 1940)