Izaak Walton Fishing Quotations

An excellent angler, and now with God.

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

[T]is not all fishing to fish.

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so...

Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

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

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

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

You cannot lose what you never had.

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