If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly? — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play,… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
