Anglers Quote by Izaak Walton Download Open image “These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.” — Izaak Walton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anglers Boat Fishes Fishing Lakes Men Pity Poor Poor rich Rich Rich man Rich men Rivers Sea
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“To the rich, the really poor don't know that the level of comfort you experience exist at all, so you see, they don't need… — Peter Ojo Copy Share Image
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that it would… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“There are poor men out there. And rich ones. Rich men never wait for nothing, so why would they be good? Good men are… — A.C. Gaughen Copy Share Image
I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
My wife wonders why all women do not seek anglers for husbands. She has come in contact with many in her life with me… — Ray Bergman 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
Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Lust is as it were desire and desire, will which extends beyond the natural will, passionate, not governed by the law and moderation. There… — Patriarch Philaret of Moscow Copy Share Image
What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed nerve endings… — Jessica Maxwell Copy Share Image
And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte. — Juliana Berners Copy Share Image
We waded so gently and reverently, or we pulled together so smoothly, that the fishes of thought were not scared from the stream, nor… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this. — Harold Russell Copy Share Image
The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
