Izaak Walton
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.Collection: Good
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.Collection: God
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.Collection: Good
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.Collection: Business
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.Collection: Nature
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.Collection: Morning
He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping.
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
In so doing, use him as though you loved him.
That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
No man can lose what he never had.
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.Collection: Wise
If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.Collection: Thankful
Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.Collection: Art
No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.Collection: Lakes
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?Collection: Art
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.Collection: Blessing
The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.Collection: Water
[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.Collection: Gratitude
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.Collection: Motivational
He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.Collection: Lying
The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.Collection: Life
Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.Collection: Hate
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.Collection: Men
I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.Collection: Brother
I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.Collection: Fishing
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.Collection: Lakes
If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.Collection: Rivers
These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.Collection: Men
Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!Collection: Music
It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.Collection: Men
I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.Collection: Beauty
And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.Collection: Winter
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.Collection: Men
Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never DidCollection: Food
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.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Dog
The will of man is by his reason swayed.Collection: Math
An excellent angler, and now with God.Collection: Lakes
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.Collection: Looks
But God, who is ableto prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own.Collection: Angel
For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father; a passion, that carries us to commit errors with as much ease as whirlwinds move feathers, and begets in us an unwearied industry to the attainment of what we desire.Collection: Wise
Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.Collection: Poetry
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.Collection: Ignorance
I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.Collection: Rivers
It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.Collection: Wise
[T]is not all fishing to fish.Collection: Fishing