Quotes by Izaak Walton

Izaak Walton

[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.

Flower

Grateful

Gratitude

[T]is not all fishing to fish.

Fishes

Fishing

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.

Men

Mirth

Sin

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.

Adversity

Children

Soul

An excellent angler, and now with God.

Fishing

Lakes

Sea

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

Fishing

Fly Fishing

Winter

And this, and many other like blessings, we enjoy daily. And for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises: but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made that sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers, and showers, and stomachs, and meat, and content, and leisure to go a-fishing.

Flower

Gratitude

Sacrifice

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.

Believe

Soul

Two

Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

Angling

Art

Fishes

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice

Mean

Men

Practice

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Angel

Angling

Animal

Appreciation

Art

Artist

Beautiful

Beauty

Being Thankful

Believe

Beloved

Berries

Blessing

Born

Brother

Business

Calm

Children

Competence

Confidence

Conversation

Daughter

Dog

Doubt

Drs

Empathy

Expressing Gratitude

Family

Father

Fishes

Fishing

Fitness

Flower

Fly Fishing

Food

Four

Given

Gone

Gossip

Grandfather

Grateful

Gratitude

Graves

Hate

Health

Heart

Heaven

Humanity

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Quotes by Izaak Walton

Izaak Walton

[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.

[T]is not all fishing to fish.

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.

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.

An excellent angler, and now with God.

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice

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