Quotes by Izaak Walton

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
– Izaak Walton
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
– Izaak Walton
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
– Izaak Walton
In so doing, use him as though you loved him.
– Izaak Walton
The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
– Izaak Walton
We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
– Izaak Walton
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
– Izaak Walton
God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
– Izaak Walton
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.
– Izaak Walton
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.
– Izaak Walton
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
– Izaak Walton
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
– Izaak Walton
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
– Izaak Walton