Quotes by Izaak Walton

• I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
• Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
• Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
• The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
• That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
• In so doing, use him as though you loved him.
• Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
• Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
• Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
• God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
• God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
• As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
• I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
• No man can lose what he never had.