The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories Quotes

“While I was explaining to my own doctor that I was planning to undertake some serious exercise, I happened to mention that I thought I had lost quite a bit of weight since my last physical. “You didn’t lose it,” he said. “It just slipped around to your rear where you can’t see it.”
― Patrick F. McManus, The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories

“One word of caution, though, should you ever buy commercial worms. If you go into a backwoods gas station and find a large, rough-looking woman behind the cash register, don’t ask, “Do you have worms?” My friend Retch Sweeney did that a while back. He should get out of his full-body cast any day now.”
― Patrick F. McManus, The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories

“Another thing I like about fishing with maggots is that if left alone they turn into flies. What kind of future is that for them? You have saved them from that particular horror, for which they should thank you copiously.”
― Patrick F. McManus, The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories

“The greatest joy in fishing comes not from the fish you catch, but from the lies you tell about the ones that got away.”
― Patrick F. McManus, The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories