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
sea fishing rivers
An excellent angler, and now with God.
men sea fishing
These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.
sea fishing rivers
If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.
winter fishing fly-fishing
And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.
fishing fishes
[T]is not all fishing to fish.
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.
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?
business fishing gone
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
learning math fishing
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
fishing life-is anglers
No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.