We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler. - Izaak Walton
No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.
- Izaak Walton
If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped. - Izaak Walton
If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
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. - Izaak Walton
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.
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly? - Izaak Walton
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?
Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning. - Izaak Walton
Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.
He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES. - Izaak Walton
He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. - Izaak Walton
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. - Izaak Walton
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. - Izaak Walton
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
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