Boat Quote by Steve Rushin

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

If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of…

— Benjamin Franklin

How many times does a man have to shave before his chin gets the message?

— Steve Aylett

If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of…

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Juliana Berners

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

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

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

— Izaak Walton

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

“He stared fixedly at the opposite bank where an angler was fishing, his line perfectly still. All of a sudden the man jerked out…

— Guy de Maupassant

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