Anglers Quote by Izaak Walton

An excellent angler, and now with God.

— Izaak Walton

No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed…

— William Walton

A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the old angler's…

— Leigh Hunt

The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.

— Edwin Way Teale

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

— Zane Grey

The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees the inside.…

— Charles Kingsley

Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die.

— Zicheng Hong

A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish.

— Robbie Keane

There's nothing sweeter than a real friend: Not only is he prompt to lend— An angler delicate, he fishes The very deepest of your…

— Jean de La Fontaine

The meditative angler is not exempt from sensational periods. There are times when all the uncertainty of his chosen pursuit seems to condense itself…

— Henry Van Dyke

For me, the life of the angler is an almost flawless example of how not to have a good time.

— Christopher Hitchens

The fly angler who says they have never, ever fallen while wading , is either a pathogenic liar, or has never been fly-fishing.

— Jimmy Moore

All the charm of the angler's life would be lost but for these hours of thought and memory. All along the brook, all day…

— William Cowper Prime

The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached this stage…

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte.

— Juliana Berners