86 Quotes by Izaak Walton

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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; at least not so fully but that there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us.