Izaak Walton

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

— Izaak Walton

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

— Izaak Walton

Look to your health: and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is…

— Izaak Walton

Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and…

— Izaak Walton

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

— Izaak Walton

Angling is an Art... an art worth your learning.

— Izaak Walton

Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did

— Izaak Walton

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

— Izaak Walton

[T]is not all fishing to fish.

— Izaak Walton

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.

— Izaak Walton

No man can lose what he never had.

— Izaak Walton

I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.

— Izaak Walton

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

— Izaak Walton

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

— Izaak Walton

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

— Izaak Walton

Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

— Izaak Walton

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

— Izaak Walton

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing…

— Izaak Walton

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

— Izaak Walton

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so...

— Izaak Walton

And this, and many other like blessings, we enjoy daily. And for most of them, because they be so common, most men…

— Izaak Walton

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

— Izaak Walton

Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!

— Izaak Walton

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the…

— Izaak Walton

It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

— Izaak Walton