Izaak Walton Quotes
Top 48 wise famous quotes and sayings by Izaak Walton
Izaak Walton Famous Quotes & Sayings
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O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?
So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.
But God, who is ableto prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own.
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration.
Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!
He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.
You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.
If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.
Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many.