Explore Quotes by Izaak Walton

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.

Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.

Look to your health: and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy; and therefore value it.

[Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers and meadows and flowers and fountains; and this and many other like blessings we enjoy daily.

Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you have but also for the bad you don't!]

He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.