86 Quotes by Izaak Walton

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

Words are men’s daughters, but God’s sons are things.

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.

We see but the outside of a rich man’s happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping.