"Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to……" — Izaak Walton
"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"
More Angling Quotes
- Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not… — Izaak Walton
- Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point. — Thomas McGuane
- There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. — Washington Irving
- Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so... — Izaak Walton
- You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world… — Izaak Walton
- The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and… — Theodore Gordon
- The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports. — Lord Byron
- Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish. — Rafael Sabatini
- After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of… — Leo Tolstoy
- Angling is an Art... an art worth your learning. — Izaak Walton
- It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. — Stephen Leacock
- Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and… — Samuel Johnson