Quotes By Izaak Walton

In so doing, use him as though you loved him.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

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

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

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

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

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

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.

No man can lose what he never had.

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.

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