Top 72 Quotes & Sayings by Thomas McGuane - Page 2

After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.

It's funny, but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall you.

In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I'm going to start on that when I am much too old to do any of the two thousand things I can think of that are more fun than screening insects in cold running water

I like young girls. Their stories are shorter.

Generally, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in the past were so bad as to make it amazing that people were able to fish at all.

I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.

The mountains paralleled the valley and the snowy peaks were extending with fall to the valley floor.

We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we saw no reason to start our own brand. Young couples plunge into parenthood and about half the time they end up with some ghastly problem on their hands. We thought we'd leave that to others.

Young anglers love new rivers the way they love the rest of their lives. Time does not seem to be of the essence and somewhere in the system is what they are looking for.

Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.

The essence of sport is courage.

By your late thirties the ground has begun to grow hard. It grows harder and harder until the day that it admits you.