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
art fishing doubt
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?
doubt rewards virtue
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
business fishing gone
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
berries calm innocence
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
travel journey way
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
learning math fishing
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
fitness health blessing
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.
fishing life-is anglers
No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.
sea fishing rivers
You cannot lose what you never had.
thankful expressing-gratitude great-gratitude
If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
wise men fishing
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration.
thanksgiving gratitude heart
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
children adversity soul
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.
beauty beautiful pleasure
I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.