Izaak Walton
Izaak Walton
Izaak Waltonwas an English writer. Best known as the author of The Compleat Angler, he also wrote a number of short biographies that have been collected under the title of Walton's Lives...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth9 August 1593
family empathy understanding
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
health blessing
Health is...a blessing that money cannot buy.
men mirth sin
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.
believe two soul
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.
rivers four six
I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.
men artist anglers
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
art fishes angling
Angling is an Art... an art worth your learning.
water locks wonder
The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders..
blessing missing misery
Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.
fishing rivers conversation
I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.
men fishing born
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so...
hate blessing fishing
Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.
men sea fishing
This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.
brother sea fishing
I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.