Quotes by Izaak Walton

“Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.”

“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”

“God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.”

“That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.”

“Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.”

“God never did make a more calm quiet innocent recreation than angling.”

“Health is ... a blessing that money cannot buy.”

“Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.”

“Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.”

“I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.”

“That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.”

“God never did make a more calm quiet innocent recreation than angling.”

“But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own; marked him with a blessing, a blessing of obedience to the motions of his bl...”

“For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father; a passion, that carries us to commit e...”

“The great secretary of Nature and all learning, Sir Francis Bacon.”

“God has two dwellings — one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.”

“I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing.”

“Of which, if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge.”

“As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.”

“I shall stay him no longer than to wish him a rainy evening to read this following discourse; and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a-fishing.”