Common Quotes by Izaak Walton

Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

— Izaak Walton

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

— Izaak Walton

Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that…

— Izaak Walton

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

— Izaak Walton

And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and turned to an equal pitch, and then one played upon, the…

— Izaak Walton

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

— Izaak Walton

If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.

— Izaak Walton

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration.

— Izaak Walton

Blessings we enjoy daily, and for most of them, because they be so common, we forget to pay our praises. But let not us,…

— Izaak Walton

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.

— Izaak Walton

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

— Izaak Walton

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

— Izaak Walton