86 Quotes by Izaak Walton

Blessings we enjoy daily, and for most of them, because they be so common, we forget to pay our praises. But let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him who still protects us, and gives us flowers and showers and meat and content.

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.

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

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.

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.

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.

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

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.