“Gamblers wager for the sake of playing. Among those who fish for pleasure, the best fisherman is not the one who catches the most fish but the one who enjoys fishing the most. The point of playing is that the play has no point.”
As It Is: Playing With Fate (p. 196)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
John Gray 164
British philosopher 1948Related quotes
1988 interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4WOqUkJmFQ&t=3m
Quote
" Dazed & Confused Magazine | Josh Homme | Sept'10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf8MQqPIroc", Dazed & Confused Magazine (September 2010)
“One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!”
“It is to be observed that "angling" is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.”
When Fellers Go Fishing http://books.google.com/books?id=I-kCAAAAMAAJ&q=%22It+is+to+be+observed+that+angling+is+the+name+given+to+fishing+by+people+who+can't+fish%22&pg=PA147#v=onepage, The Leacock Roundabout, (1945)
“Come fishing with me, said the fisherman to the worm.”
Komm, geh mit angeln, sagte der Fischer zum Wurm.
Mutter Courage to the army recruiter when he tries to recruit her son in Scene 1
Mother Courage and Her Children (1939)
Introduction, p. 1
Catching the Big Fish (2006)
Source: Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
Context: Ideas are like fish.
If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper.
Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful.
“The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.”
England Have My Bones (1936)
Source: The Michael Jordan of Football http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/nfl/news/1999/01/29/lawrence_taylor/, sportsillustrated.cnn.com, accessed April 2, 2007.