Best 58 quotes of Izaak Walton on MyQuotes

A companion that feasts the company with and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is the man; and let me tell you, good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

And this, and many other like blessings, we enjoy daily. And for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises: but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made that sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers, and showers, and stomachs, and meat, and content, and leisure to go a-fishing.

And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and turned to an equal pitch, and then one played upon, the other will warble a faint audible harmony in answer to the same tune: yet many will not believe there is any such thing as sympathy of souls, and I am well pleased that every reader do enjoy his own opinion.

An excellent angler, and now with God.

Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us.

[Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers and meadows and flowers and fountains; and this and many other like blessings we enjoy daily.

But God, who is ableto prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own.

Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.

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

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

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience.

I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

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

I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.

It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you have but also for the bad you don't!]

Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.

Look to your health: and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy; and therefore value it.

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.

Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!

No man can lose what he never had.

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

Of this blest man, let his just praise be given, Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.

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.

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

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.

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

The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals are blind to this reason) only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker.

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.