86 Quotes by Izaak Walton

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.

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.

I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

Angling is an Art... an art worth your learning.

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

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.

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

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

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