Izaak Walton Quotes

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

Of this blest man, let his just praise be given, Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

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

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice

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

For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father; a passion, that carries us to commit errors with as much ease as whirlwinds move feathers, and begets in us an unwearied industry to the attainment of what we desire.

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn’t be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.